Essential Extensions for Brackets

Brackets has an extensive array of extensions for enhancing your front-end development workflow.

  • Emmet – The Emmet extension for Brackets, if you take the time to learn it, provides wonderful shorthand snippets for quickly coding in HTML and CSS.
    1. Emmet Plugin
    2. Emmet — the essential toolkit for web-developers
  • Indent Guides – The Indent Guides extension for Brackets adds helpful guides to your code, making it easier to see where one section ends and another begins.
    1. A Brackets extension to show indent guides in the code editor
  • Beautify – The Beautify extension for Brackets does exactly what its name implies. It takes sloppy, unformatted markup and makes it look beautiful by adding spacing and indents that to make it easier to read.
    1. Brackets Beautify 2.x
  • Autoprefixer – The Autoprefixer extension for Brackets parses through your CSS code and adds vendor prefixes to your styles to make it as browser-friendly as possible.
    1. Brackets Autoprefixer
  • Lorem Pixel
    1. Brackets Lorem Pixel
  • CDN Suggestions – Using a Content Delivery Network is a great way to link to commonly used libraries like jQuery and Bootstrap. CDN Suggestions is a plugin that will give you quick access to all of the most popular CDN links available.
    1. CDN Suggestions
  • HTML Wrapper – The HTML Wrapper extension for Brackets provides a great shortcut for surrounding plain text with list item tags, anchor tags, and more.
    1. HTML Wrapper Extension
  • CanIUse – The CanIUse plugin provides a quick-access panel in Brackets where you can search for information about browser compatibility on the CanIUse website.
    1. CanIUse Extension