Choosing Sublime Text for Web development

When a programmer choose a text editor or an IDE for programming, they are choosing a companion, a technology colleague, and at the same time making a statement about themselves. Because choosing an IDE is an important decision, we give you reasons to consider what we use. At Okinara Consulting Services, we currently use Sublime Text as our primary IDE for web development.

Sublime Text has become a very popular text editor and IDE for a number of reasons.

Perfect for Web Development

We, at Okinara Consulting Services have been using Sublime Text for all web development projects. It works especially well if you know your projects inside out. This is the case since we constantly work with OpenCart, Joomla, Drupal and WordPress. The syntax highlighting and auto-completion, especially with HTML and CSS is quick and accurate.

The search and replace features are also very useful. You can select the same text appearing in different parts of a file and start editing it all at once using “Ctrl + D”. You can also search and replace text in multiple pages throughout your project folder.

It is beautifully designed.

There many themes to choose from, but even the default theme include with a black background and bright highlighted keywords is a pleasure to work with.

It’s very fast

It took 30 to 33 seconds for Aptana (a flavor of Eclipse) and Netbeans to load up. However, it took only 5 to 7 seconds for Sublime Text to load.

For a full chart go to http://www.kapilbulsara.com/2014/03/sublime-text

Powerful Search Engine

Sublime text uses something called fuzzy search technique, so even if you make a typing error, it will display results that you could have meant by looking at similar file names. This is a bit like how Google starts showing you results even as you are typing misspelled keywords. You just need to press Ctrl + P on Windows or Cmd + P on OSX to start searching.