Webclipse Review – Best IDE For Modern Web Developers

Webclipse is a suite of Eclipse add-ons designed to improve the coding experience—especially for the modern web developers. Webclipse provides superior support for JavaScript , TypeScript & modern web framework Like Angular. 

JSjet Supports modern JavaScript and TypeScript. TypeScript is the language which is used to write javascript code in object oriented manner. This helps in keeping the code encapsulated and preserve variable scopes. We can use all the features of object oriented style like polymorphism, interface, inheritance etc.

JsJet provides all the features which are required by a modern web developer to code in TypeScript. It includes syntax highlighting, code validation, content assist, source formatting & refactoring, debugging, occurrence highlighting and lot more.

Webclipse provides you a powerful & advanced debugger. You can easily debug your JavaScript, TypeScript, (X)HTML, JSP and Node.js files.

Being a developer myself, the most critical and time consuming task I feel, is finding and correcting errors. Without a powerful debugger you might stuck at wrong section. Sometimes, the inbuilt error consoles displays a lot of errors which could be fixed by simply adding a semicolon. Therefore a powerful debugger is a necessity so that you can spend more time in coding, in spite of finding errors.

Debugger, provided by the webclipse, makes your life easy by directly pointing you towards the bug. It also support source maps which is a critical need when you wish to keep your client-side code minified but debuggable and that too without impacting the performance.

Webclipse provides a special feature known as codelive. CodeLive provides a bridge between the IDE and the browser, which speeds up web development. You can use Code Live to easily explore your Angular application, navigating effortlessly to pieces of code you need to work with.

To set up appropriate versions of Node, NPM and angular-cli for the project is a critical task, even for intermediate developers. You may also need to configure and manage versions. But terminal+ can take all the hassles away from you. You can use different command line tools with Terminal+. It helps in auto configuration and managing the appropriate versions of tools for your project.

If you are working on more than one project, Terminal+ automatically configures the bash shell to keep track of different CLI versions for different projects for appropriate compatibility.

​Eclipse is a powerful IDE which becomes more powerful with Webclipse. Webclipse is a plugin of Eclipse which boost the web development by providing different tools which were previously only available with high level languages like java. You can enhance your web development even further by adding other plugins from Eclipse ecosystem.

This is a freemium IDE. You will have unlimited access to Freebie features. To access Pro features you can either subscribe for a license or can use for 8 days/month in absolutely no cost at all. This IDE is available under 3 licenses: Free , Personal ( $29/year ) & Commercial ( $48/year) .

The purpose of this Article was to provide a simple review of Webclipse IDE , We also wanted to figure out why It is an IDE For Modern web developers. The result is a mix of Features in Webclipse and Our Personal opinions , so it’s definitely not an impartial or exhaustive list. If you’re not familiar with Webclipse , though, we hope it gave you a feel for it.