Komodo adds support for Node.js
Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2012 6:21 am
I just wanted to let all of the Node.js developers know that the quite slick Komodo Edit 7 has added support for Node.js. It is a free, open source code editor. From my playing around with it, it seems to follow the flow of Node.js apps quite well. Something that many other supposedly node-friendly editors have not done well is discovering what is returned from node package's many factory methods. For example, when you require the HTTP package and then use the createServer method, most editors seem to have no idea what is returned from that, or what the resulting object's methods are. At least for the common packages, Komodo seems to keep up well. The only time I confused it was with some extremely complex CommonJS-style module syntax. For most development purposes, it should work great.
If you have some extra cash and want some more functionality (such as live, step-by-step debugging in Node, better project management, db explorer, etc.), you can pick up the commercial Komodo IDE 7. If you want to compare editions, here is a page dedicated just to that. It has some nice features, but I do believe the price is a bit steep for what I have used it for.
But if you are doing significant coding in Node.js, there is little reason that you should not be using Komodo Edit 7!
If you have some extra cash and want some more functionality (such as live, step-by-step debugging in Node, better project management, db explorer, etc.), you can pick up the commercial Komodo IDE 7. If you want to compare editions, here is a page dedicated just to that. It has some nice features, but I do believe the price is a bit steep for what I have used it for.
But if you are doing significant coding in Node.js, there is little reason that you should not be using Komodo Edit 7!