From the course: Web Programming Foundations
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What is a code editor?
- All that code parsed by the browser and presented to the visitor as content has to be written somewhere and that somewhere is the code editor. Well, technically you can write code for the web in any application that allows you to write and save plain text files, but a code editor is a tool specifically designed for editing code, so it's the best tool for the job. There are a myriad of code editors and types of code editors, all customized to fit a specific work situation, coding language, or practice, but they all have one crucial thing in common. They are used to write or develop the code that powers the web and since that code, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and so on, is open and uncompiled, it doesn't matter which code editor you use and you can open the same files and work with them in any code editor at any time. In other words, for the most part, code editor preference is exactly that, a preference. Some people like one code editor over another, some code editors provide better…
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