Good question. Coda is everything you need to hand-code a website, in one beautiful app.
Coda Text Editor For Mac
While the pitch is simple, building Coda was anything but. How do you elegantly wrap everything together? Well, we did it. And today, Coda has grown to be a critical tool for legions of web developers around the world.
More than anything else, Coda is a text editor. It’s got everything you expect: syntax highlighting for tons of languages. Code folding. Project-wide autocomplete. Fast find and replace. Indentation guides. Automatic tag closing. Fast commenting and shifting of code. The works. But Coda’s editor has features you won’t find anywhere else. For example, the Find and Replace has this revolutionary 'Wildcard' token that makes RegEx one-button simple. And as you type, Coda Pops let you quickly create colors, gradients, and more, using easy controls. There are nice touches everywhere.
Coda is an editor used by Mac OS users, particularly those who edit in HTML and CSS. In the first place, for live preview feature and publication tools. An edited file can be uploaded to the server using FTP, SFTP, and WebDAV. Coda is a fast, clean, and powerful text editor with pixel-perfect preview and a built-in way to open and manage your local and remote files. And a dash of SSH too. It’s got everything you expect: syntax highlighting for tons of languages.
But an incredible text editor is just a nice typewriter if you can’t easily handle all of your files — from anywhere. Coda has battle-tested, deeply integrated file management. Open local files or edit remotely on FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, or Amazon S3 servers. Use the Files tab and move, rename, copy, transfer from server-to-server... anything. Track local changes for remote publishing. There’s even support for Git and Subversion.
Then you’ll want to see what your code looks like. Use our WebKit Preview, which includes a web inspector, debugger, and profiler. Then, on top of that, we added AirPreview, a revolutionary feature that lets you use your iPad and iPhone with Code Editor to Preview pages as you code on your desktop.
Coda Editor For Windows
- You code for the web. You demand a fast, clean, and powerful text editor. Pixel-perfect preview. A built-in way to open and manage your local and remote files. And maybe a dash of SSH. Say hello, Coda.
- Mar 20, 2018 dialogue to open whatever file you want to edit. Once you've finished editing you can switch back to WC and do your commit messages and push the branch. I just did a quick test using Coda and it can also access WC as a document provider although I've.
Believe it or not, we’ve just scratched the surface. Open Coda’s Sidebar to discover a rich set of utilities that make you work better. Like Clips, which let you create frequently used bits of text that you can insert into your document with special triggers. And project-wide Find and Replace that’ll work across multiple files. There’s also an HTML Validator, a Code Navigator, and more.
Finally, hiding behind the Plus button in the tab bar is a built-in Terminal and MySQL editor, two amazingly powerful Tab Tools. The Terminal can open a local shell or SSH. MySQL lets you define structure, edit data, and more.
And it’s all wrapped up in our Sites, which get you started quickly. Opening a Site sets your file paths, your root URLs, where your files Publish to, source control settings, and more. And with Panic Sync, our free and secure sync service, your sites follow you on any computer.
Coda is a very good app.
Everything moves fast, and now, the market reality is that so many developers are switching to Visual Studio Code. Again, it is FREE, there is a huge community of FREE extensions, and it is more than enough to satisfy even the most demanding developers. How would you expect Coda to appeal to those developers when they are getting most of what they need for free?
In the meanwhile, PHPStorm is thriving despite its subscription model, because the developer did a good job in positioning it at a price point where developers feel is worthwhile for the features they get out of it. Its yearly price is lower than Coda's and it is far more powerful than Coda. You might say, 'You pay once for Coda while PHPStorm makes you pay every year.' But the reality is that you pay for Coda's major updates, and you would complain if they make you wait for more than a year. Sorry, you can't have both.
That's why I suggested in my original post that Coda might have a better fighting chance if it releases a pro-grade IDE for iOS that makes web developers go, 'Wow, this thing makes iOS viable for serious development!' and sells the Mac version on a strong Mac-iOS integration including robust multi-device test environment that matches Chrome Dev Tools. They have to differentiate themselves that way, or I'm afraid it will continue to be a losing game for them especially if they keep their current price point. None of this is to say free is better. All of it is strictly based on the market reality and how most people think. (People are cheap, harsh, and they aren't going to pay unless they feel it's justified..)