#Textastic review 2018 software#
Panic make Transmit, which is the best FTP software I’ve used on macOS and you’re pretty much getting a pared-down version of that in Coda.
#Textastic review 2018 code#
What Coda really is is a code editor with cut-down versions of a couple of other Panic products tagged onto it. This is particularly noticeable on iOS where Coda is one of the most intuitive applications I’ve used on the platform. Panic, the makers of Coda, have been around for a while now and they seem to understand user interfaces very well. It’s easy to use and it has an attractive, well-designed interface on both macOS and iOS. In terms of a ‘lite’ code editor, Coda is the best I’ve found.
#Textastic review 2018 how to#
That is, essentially, a description of what Coda does and serves as very brief overview of how to use it, but what do I think of it? Coda main screen on macOS. On macOS you can further select from various themes to colour your code via Coda’s settings. When you edit a file you get the code window and you’ll find your code is coloured nicely according to the language you’re coding in. From the function menus you can upload, download, move, duplicate, delete and edit files in the expected way. On iOS you prod files to access the function menus and and macOS you right-click them, much as you’d expect. The main screen in Coda has your local files on the left and your remote files on the right in what we might consider to be the ‘classic’ manner. iOS does not currently support these features. On macOS there’s also support for source control - either GIT or Subversion - and there’s a database connector. You can configure your terminal settings via the project settings screen. This is extremely handy, particularly on iOS. It’s here that you enter your project details, selecting a local directory to store files in and entering FTP (or SFTP and even WebDav) details for remote transfers.Ĭoda also has an in-built terminal you can use to SSH to your remote machine. The Projects ScreenĬoda can organise your files into projects and the projects screen is probably the first one you’ll encounter when you start up Coda. I’m reviewing Coda as a ‘lite’ code editor too, so I’m not comparing it to what you might call ‘heavy’ code editors, by which I mean things like Xcode and Microsoft Visual Studio. So I’ll do them both together and then note any significant differences between the two versions as I go along. They’re quite similar - you just click a mouse on the macOS version and prod a screen on the iOS version. I’m going to review both the macOS Coda (2.6.10) and the iOS Coda (2.2.9) in one go here.
The above is just for context so you know where my review is coming from. These days I try to avoid writing software other than for web-based applications, which means I code mainly in HTML, CSS/SCSS and PHP, and I don’t do this professionally at the moment but merely for my own benefit. Themed code snippet.īy trade I’m a software engineer. It's a great product but it could really do with proper synchronisation of files between platforms, maybe via iCloud. Coda is my code editor of choice (mainly web coding) on macOS and iOS.
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