In terms of editors, I use vim for everything I do. -- dz
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 11:24 AM, chris thatcher <thatcher.christop...@gmail.com> wrote: > On windows I recommend 'e' which is a copy of 'textmate' which is my > recommendation for mac. I bet textmate runs on linux in general but can't > promise that. > > On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 5:26 AM, Mark Gibson <jollyt...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hi Daniel, you don't say what OS you use. This can make a big >> difference, especially if you're familiar with shell scripting. I use >> Ubuntu Linux, have a local apache service running which is configured >> out of the box for user dirs (ie. http://localhost/~mark - served from >> /home/mark/public_html). I have a common dir in there containing >> jQuery & UI - these are updated, built and copied there from the svn >> working-copies elsewhere in my filesystem by a short custom shell >> script. I use rsync to then sync all of this up to a public web-server >> hosted by my company. >> For editing I use the very understated GEdit which is part of Gnome >> desktop, and the snipets plugin - which insert all the boiler plate >> html/js I need - I did briefly try a couple of web-dev env's but just >> found them annoying. >> While on this, I'd be interested to know what editors (or even IDE's) >> people use for JS/jQuery work. I've not really found any that can >> handle a functional language such as JS all that well. Personally I >> can't stand bulky IDE's (such as Eclipse) that insist on managing >> projects for you and eat all your resources. >> >> 2009/3/13 Daniel Friesen <nadir.seen.f...@gmail.com>: >> > >> > I'm wondering what kind of tricks and setups other people have when they >> > are developing with jQuery. >> > Be it writing some improvements to jQuery itself, or writing a plugin. >> > I'm not really looking for those using jQuery in an application, cause >> > that environment is normally just taking a few jQuery files and plugins >> > and including that into your existing development environment. >> > >> > I'm trying to find out how people (plugin and core jQuery developers) >> > normally handle their development environment for working on jQuery or a >> > jQuery plugin. >> > >> > Every time I work on another piece for jQuery, I end up creating a new >> > html file, which normally consists of either copying some junk from >> > another project and modifying it, or constructing a new one by grabbing >> > a doctype and a few tags off some references on the internet. I also end >> > up grabbing jQuery again to shove in and include. >> > As for actually testing stuff, I normally might just go off the >> > filesystem, however sometimes that doesn't quite work right, and I end >> > up needing to configure a local webserver (normally I just edit the >> > config for my local nginx). >> > Things get real ugly when working on patches to jQuery core itself. >> > Mostly because of needing to `make jquery` all the time. Sometimes I end >> > up sitting there for a few minutes trying to figure out "why the hell >> > didn't my edit fix this bug?" then realize I forgot to rebuilt jquery >> > before I refreshed the page to test it. >> > >> > All in all, I don't really consider it a nice and clean, or even helpful >> > environment. >> > For that reason I've actually started experimenting with building a >> > Rails app to manage projects and streamline things like creating html >> > pages from templates, previewing a page and working on code live, as >> > well as nice integration for github forks of jQuery (fork/clone as in >> > gitspeak), jQuery svn, and different versions of jQuery. >> > >> > -- >> > ~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) >> > >> > >> > > >> > >> >> > > > > -- > Christopher Thatcher > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "jQuery Development" group. To post to this group, send email to jquery-dev@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to jquery-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jquery-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
