What do you use to code websites?

[Pixelverse48]

For Redesigns of my websites or reworks of some parts of my website, I use VSCode. Otherwise, I just use the Nekoweb editor.

[Ticbow]

Until I recently rebuilt my website using notepad, I had actually used an old copy of Frontpage 2000 to put it together and get a proper 90s feel

[ABlueRose]

For my website, I do it all in the Neocities editor. I know that's bad practice though so I've been meaning to download it and use Notepad++ for future edits, but I haven't gotten around to it yet. I do use Notepad++ for helping my mom with her website, and for any other projects

[HisVirusness]

KWrite, mostly; sometimes Neovim, but I tend to keep a separation between prose writing and code writing.  I used to use VIM almost exclusively, but that's been changing over the last few years.

[chubs]

I use VSCodium, which is a version of VSCode without all the tracking and Microsoft-branded stuff.

[noahie]

For my coding and writing, I use Micro. It's a text editor that I can use in my terminal and for me, it's a good bridge between a word processor (what I was mostly used to) and a more "advanced" text editor like vim or Emacs. When I first started using Linux back in 2024, I usually used Nano if I wanted to edit files. I initially liked Nano, but realized that I couldn't use it to write posts for my website because it didn't have enough features. I used Obsidian for a while since a lot of my website's posts are written in markdown (I use Zola as my static site generator), but found Micro to be a better option so that I don't need to have two different programs open to publish a new post.

Nowadays, I do everything in my terminal with Micro and it's been great. I'm still not fully glued to my keyboard like I would be with vim or Emacs, which I appreciate at this point. Micro has more conventionally known keybindings (Ctrl-C to copy, Ctrl-V to paste, etc.) and it also has good cursor support. The plugin database is small, but it has everything I need. The only plugins I use regularly are aspell for grammar and the word counter plugin.

Whenever I make a post on my blog, I make the file in a separate 'blog-dev' folder that points to my site's blog folder, write my post, build the site with zola, cd to my site folder, and push with the Neocities CLI. When I'm done writing the post, all I need is one command:

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zola build; cd ~/site; neocities push .

[lucky]

I use Brackets personally! I tried using Phoenix for a bit but I didn't like it as much. Brackets will always have my back!

[goat]

just the default text editor on linux mint (xed)

its nothing fancy, has syntax highlighting

that's all i need rly <3

[dogbrain]

eventually i do want to move my editing someplace else, but i've used the neocities editor for so long that it's practically second nature to me it doesn't have certain quality-of-life features that editors like brackets or vscode have (like the css color picker) but the bare essentials are all i really need, and i'm nothing if not a loyal mf xD

(though one bigggggg downside for me is how every edit is put on blast for anyone browsing the activity page to see it's a weird panopticon)

[sunnyp4rk]

I use Notepad++. I've used it for so long that I don't see a reason to switch to anything else.

[504slashdiv]

I use the neocities/nekoweb editor for my own website, but if it's something I'm testing out and don't have a page for on my sites, I use webmaker.app to test it out! It's kind of like codepen but it works entirely in the browser and I can even use it offline.

[nexxlyte]

oh gosh I use vs code but when I'mreally in a hurry I use nekoweb's built in editor or hell just open it in some random text editor (or worse...type it in a discord message) to try to add something real fast LOL in vs code I use so many extensions it's not even funny I feel like my PC is going to become a space rocket and fly away if I add any more

[$DIR]

Back in the day I used Evrsoft's 1st Page 2000. Up until that point I had coded in Notepad like almost everyone else who wasn't using WYSIWYG. But then I heard that 1st Page had a Preview tab that you could switch over to and see changes in real time and I was sold.

Jumping back into web design, I still wanted that ability to see changes as they happened, so I looked around and found Phoenix Code. It comes with the ability to live preview on multiple browsers, so I often have the Chrome live preview open on one monitor, Firefox live preview on another, and my third monitor being exclusively code.

[saku]

i used to use phoenix code, but it kept crashing every 20 minutes which was annoying  now i just use nekoweb's built in editor for most things, but if im trying to get size attributes right (e.g. if i want the height of the scrollbox to fit in with the section) then i use codeshack live editor to see changes in real time