Definitely NetBeans is relevant for JavaScript usage. Best of all, any roadblocks you encounter can be fixed by your own pull requests to Apache NetBeans on Apache Git.
Gj On Thursday, December 28, 2017, Thomas Hubschman <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > As an old time NB user (started sometime between 2000 and 2004) I have > been quite devout in my use of NB for all things Java. > > As much as I'd like to have seen a Swing-dominate world, it was > JS/HTML/CSS that prevailed. ;) ;) ;) > > 20 years later I find that most of my UI work is in Angular, React, or > Ember. > > I have tried on several occasions to use NB for this work, but it doesn't > quite seem designed for it. I keep hitting roadblocks. > > My question is: Is it Practical to use NetBeans for a Modern "Compiled" JS > app? > > e.g. ES7 ==> WebPack ==> Babel ==> etc. ==> etc. > > I have used it when I included Angular libraries in the index.html header > directly to great success but since I started having WebPack run things I > have had less success. I love the Chrome integration. > > Thanks, > > Tom > > P.S. As a side note I am looking to do some development work on NB. I D/L > the repo over the break and am starting to poke around. >
