Brackets

Web design editor with live browser preview

About Brackets

Brackets is a free, open-source text editor built for web designers and front-end developers, with live preview of HTML and CSS changes. Inline editors let users edit CSS rules inside HTML, and preprocessor support plus extensions cover common front-end workflows. For everyday users and professionals alike, it offers a focused and dependable way to get this work done without complicated setup steps or bloated, expensive software suites.

Brackets key facts

Category: Developer Tools
Pricing: Free — listed in this directory as a free tool, with no paid plan required to use it.
Focus areas: web design, editor, live preview
Official site: brackets.io

About the Developer Tools category

Editors, platforms, and services developers rely on to build and ship software. The Developer Tools category on Tools Hub currently lists 738 tools. Alongside Brackets, it includes Geany, Kate, Lite XL, CudaText.

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More in Developer Tools

Comparing tools in the Developer Tools category? These related listings are worth a look: Geany — Lightweight IDE that starts instantly; Kate — Advanced text editor from the KDE community; Lite XL — Tiny extensible editor written in Lua.