Aptana Studio is an open-source integrated development environment (IDE) for building web applications. Based on Eclipse, it supports JavaScript, HTML, DOM and CSS with code-completion, outlining, JavaScript debugging, error and warning notifications and integrated documentation. Additional plugins allow Aptana Studio to support Ruby on Rails, PHP, Python, Perl, Adobe AIR, Apple iPhone and Nokia WRT (Web Runtime). Aptana Studio is available as a standalone on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux, or as a plugin for Eclipse.
Highlights:
- Developer(s) – Aptana Inc.
- Stable release – November 19, 2014
- Written in – Java, JavaScript
- Operating system – Cross-platform
- Type – Web Development / IDE
- License – Dual License (Aptana Public License, v1.0, GNU General Public License)
- Website – http://www.aptana.com/
Key Features:
- HTML, CSS, and JavaScript Code Assist: Aids in authoring of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, and Ruby. Supports the latest HTML5 specifications. Includes information about the level of support for each element in the major web browsers.
- Deployment Wizard: Support for one-shot as well as keep-synchronized setups. Multiple protocols including FTP, SFTP, FTPS and Capistrano. Ability to automatically publish your Ruby & Rails applications to hosting services such as Heroku and Engine Yard.
- Integrated Debugger: Set breakpoints, inspect variables, control execution. The integrated Ruby & Rails and JavaScript debuggers help you squash those bugs.
- Git Integration: Easily put your projects under git source code control. Collaborate with team members through merge, pull and push actions to remote repositories such those hosted on Github. Facilitates git-based deployments.
- Built-in Terminal: Quickly access a command line terminal for execution of operating system commands and language utilities such as gem, rake, etc.
- IDE Customization: Setup your development environment exactly the way you want it by extending the core capabilities through scripting of custom commands. Studio ships with hundreds of commands but always presents them in context based on the type of file you are editing.
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