Web Development Environment on Linux

oldmanken

I'm about to sell off my Macbook Pro, on which I do some website development using Dreamweaver, as I have switched back to a PC (dual booting Windows 7 and Oracle Linux).

Can anyone suggest a comparable development environment that I can use in Oracle Linux? As in, something that will allow me to update files and have them sync with the server at the touch of a button. I've installed NetBeans, but am not entirely sure if it has this functionality.

mrcheesypants

NEVER EDIT FILES DIRECTLY ON THE SERVER OR MINDLESSLY SYNC LIKE THAT!

At the very least, test it on your development instance and then FTP the files to your server. If possible, set up a git instance on your webserver and push your changes with a deployment branch. That way, you can keep server specific configuration files and not have to worry too much about overwriting them.

As for editors, I hear good things about Sublime and it might have a plugin/functionality that you asked for.

Seguer

@oldmanken when you say development environment, I envision software installed like a web server, your programming language of choice, a database, etc...

What do you mean when you say it? It sounds like you're just asking about an editor/IDE.

Also, seconding @mrcheesypants 's all-caps. There lies danger.

bowen

http://www.jetbrains.com/phpstorm/

Good UI.

But yeah, don't do that one button thing. I've done that before. If it works for update, it works for delete.

You can imagine my anger after losing 4 hours worth of work.

oldmanken

Let me clarify. I'm looking for something Dreamweaver-like that I can install on my Oracle Linux partition. Like I said, I've put Netbeans on, but that seems more of a full blown software/app development environment, whereas I am only looking for an editor right now.

So, regarding updating an uploading, is there a good piece of software for that, or should basic FTP suffice?

bowen

Filezilla is the best FTP client I've used in a while.

You're not really going to find much "dreamweaver" like.

http://www.bluegriffon.org/ I guess is the best I can do for you.

oldmanken

Yeah, I figured finding something completely Dreamweaver like is going to be a no go. Mostly, I'm just curious about what software I should have on my system if I will be doing some website maintenance and design.

Also, that Sublime Text program looks incredible, but $70 is a hell of a price for admission.

bowen

I take it you need WYSIWYG type editors and not doing code by hand? Sublime is good for editing code by hand. Typically what I do is open up sublime and hit F5 every time I want to reload the site.

oldmanken

I actually prefer doing things by hand, even though I'm not overly experienced with HTML. Dreamweaver was what I used because that's what I had available and I've gotten used to it, though I never used its WYSIWYG functionality.

I'm primarily a DBA, hence the Oracle Linux install, but am looking to start doing some more web work and start learning some other languages. On the side, I help a friend out by updating and maintain their company website. So yeah, just really looking for what software is the best to use and most seamless on Linux.

bowen

Personally I like the jetbrains products better than sublime. But sublime is the best other alternative other than a full blown IDE like netbeans or whatever.

Jimmy King

Yeah, sublime is good, but a bit pricey for what it is if you're not really using all of the features and instead using it as an editor just slightly more powerful than notepad. It has plugins to do all kinds of stuff, but sometimes those plugins also have to be paid for on top of the editor itself.

acidlacedpenguin

I use Jetbrains PHPStorm for all of my webdev stuff on my fedora machine at work. One thing that's particularly nice is it's got a chrome add-on that allows you to live edit.