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Developer(s) | Adobe Systems |
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Initial release | 4 November 2014 |
Stable release |
1.9 / 23 March 2017
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Preview release | 1.2 Pre - Linux CEF 2171 (January 22, 2015 | )
Repository | github |
Development status | Active |
Written in | HTML, CSS and JavaScript |
Operating system | macOS, Windows and Linux |
Size | ~40 MB |
Available in | 38 languages |
Type | Text editor |
License | MIT License |
Website | brackets |
Brackets is an open-source editor written in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript with a primary focus on web development. It was created by Adobe Systems, licensed under the MIT License, and is currently maintained on GitHub. Brackets is available for cross-platform download on Mac, Windows, and Linux.
On November 4, 2014, Adobe announced the 1.0 release of Brackets. The update introduced new features such as custom shortcut key combinations and more accurate JavaScript hinting. Brackets has a major focus on development in JavaScript, CSS and HTML. With release of version 1.0 Adobe announced a feature that extracts design information from a PSD file for convenience of coding in CSS. As of June 28, 2016, the feature is officially discontinued, due to "low usage". However, Extract is still available via Photoshop and Dreamweaver, both of which are part of their paid service, Adobe Creative Cloud. The latest version release of Brackets is 1.9.
Adobe first started development of a text editor for web development on Edge Code, which was discontinued as of November 2014. This was later transformed into Adobe Brackets. With the release of Brackets 1.0, Adobe announced that the development of an open source software for web development was ready and was not an experimental project anymore. Brackets contains more than 282 community contributors and more than 400 requests for bug fixes and new features. Every version of Brackets has more than 100,000 downloads and stands to be 16th most popular project on GitHub as of January 16, 2015.