Tools for developing Meteor

Question

I've been watching the screencasts on the site and wondering what editor is being used? It looks like vi or vim (which one is it)? And at the bottom of the terminal says "JavaScript-IDE"? (is this a plugin for vi or vim) Thanks!

Answer 1

From Abigail Watson, Meteor expert:

WebStorm is no longer the Meteor-Cookbook recommended Editor or Development Environment. We now recommend Atom.io since it's a pure-javascript editor, meaning we can extend the Meteor Isomorphic API to the Editor.

(https://github.com/awatson1978/meteor-cookbook/blob/master/cookbook/webstorm.md)

Our Meteor API for the Atom Editor brings Isomorphic Meetor javascript to the editor with autocomplete, code snippets, color-coded grammar, syntax highlighting, and more! Code faster and with fewer mistakes!

(https://github.com/awatson1978/meteor-api)

Answer 2

WebStorm

Webstorm 9 has excellent Meteor support.

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For Vim/Emacs

Another option would be to use TernJS and VIM/Emacs as explained by Slava Kim at Dev Shop.

A Good Write up about it here