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What do you use for writing HTML by hand? (programming.dev)
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I don't like front-end development but I enjoy writing things by hand rather than rely on one-off classes. Even in my blog, I tend to write a lot of HTML manually throughout the post, like creating a quick container to put two images side-by-side and center them, making blockquotes, the occasional nested list, in-line CSS, etc...

I've written some of it in VSCode and Joplin but I didn't find it comfortable to write in either of them. What editor/extensions do you use to make dealing with HTML easier? I'm currently looking at Emmet, but it looks a bit intimidating to learn.

Edit: I ended up using Emmet for writing HTML in general along with Espanso for quickly inserting some templates I use. It's working out pretty well!

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[-] BehindTheBarrier@programming.dev 5 points 2 months ago

The following isn't any professional advice or anything, I am writing HTML manually for my hobby blog code. I don't have much experience with HTML outside occasionally reading it.

I write a bit by hand, to layout my blog page, which is using HTMX. Generally I use RustRover since that actually gives details for attributes and such along with autocomplete. And apparently yesterday it asked if I wanted to enable HTMX support, which was even more intriguing. The main articles are however converted from markdown to HTML.

I do want a better way to design with preview of my page but I think it's a long shot to find something that does HTMX at the same time. Especially since that often means having segregated pieces of HTML mixed into one document at page loading.

[-] greywolf0x1@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

+1 for htmx

RustRover feels quite heavy/bulky, why not Fleet/Zed assuming you've checked those out?

[-] BehindTheBarrier@programming.dev 1 points 2 months ago

I'm still a windows pleb, so no Zed for me. Fleet I haven't heard of before.

I'm also very much one that likes a lot of convenience. RustRover is know from experience with both pycharm and Rider. But my main points are convenient functionality, autocomplete, debugger, code navigation, formatting and cleanup and git diff readily available. RustRover might be big and heavy, but it let's me focus on writing and running my code without much issues.

[-] greywolf0x1@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

still a windows pleb, so no Zed for me

oh, ok

Fleet I haven't heard of before

It is Jetbrains newest thing, an all language ide, an answer to VsCodium and Zed I guess, it's still stuck in beta though

I understand your points about convenience and experience

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