Differences between web development environment and a text editor?

BillEssley

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Hi,

What is the difference between a web development environment and a text editor?
 

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Web development environment often termed IDE is a program that often will let you code, see results, execute scripts, works with a local server and more. Dreamweaver and Netbeans are examples of an IDE. Text editor is good for writing up straight code but not possible to create a complete site that can be thoroughly tested out as a whole. Notepad ++ and Sublime text are a couple of examples.
 

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Using an IDE for developing is a lot more comfortable, but not really necessary to write code. For simple things like writing a HTML page and some css a text editor is enough.
 

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They're one and the same, just a coding editor has a lot more shortcuts, customisations and syntax highlighting, etc.
 
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