Setting up Atom for Web Development
In the vein of these Sublime Text 3 recommendations for Rails development, here’s my Atom setup for developing web apps.
After using Sublime and Vim for several years, I switched to Atom a year ago, and have not missed one feature from the other two so far. Since Atom is in continuous development by the core team and the community, it only gets better as time passes. Also, it’s free.
First, an FAQ/C:
- Why can’t it open >2MB files like ST does?>2MB file support is tracked for the 1.0 release out already!
- The startup time too slow!
There’s continuing work on this, getting better on every release.
Packages
No need to install any package manager for Atom. The editor is composed of over 50 open-source packages, and so the package manager is built in. There’s a phenomenal package repository online, or you can search for them directly on Atom’s Settings -> Install. And, since Atom is open source and built using web technologies, creating new packages or extending exiting ones is easy. Here are the ones I use:
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