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Adobe Edge Inspect CC vs Browserlink.vim

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When comparing Adobe Edge Inspect CC vs Browserlink.vim, the Slant community recommends Browserlink.vim for most people. In the question“What are the best cross-browser live-update / synchronization tools?” Browserlink.vim is ranked 5th while Adobe Edge Inspect CC is ranked 10th. The most important reason people chose Browserlink.vim is:

It's a Vim plugin, so it's natively tied to Vim itself.

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What are the best cross-browser live-update / synchronization tools?

Adobe Edge Inspect CC

Browserlink.vim

Pros

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Remote code inspection

Inspect uses winre to debug and inspect the code on remote devices connected to it. It allows for DOM manipulation and provides a JavaScript console.

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Synchronization is very fast

The rendering across different browsers and devices is fast and accurate.

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Setup is easy

Setting up Adobe Edge Inspect is rather easy. The Edge Inspect application itself is needed for desktop and a chrome plugin. For mobile devices, there is the Adobe Edge Inspect mobile app which needs to be installed. Once the Inspect program is "switched on", it will start watching all devices that have Edge Inspect enabled.

For mobile devices, the Inspect app will generate an authentication code which needs to be inserted into the Chrome plugin. Once that's done, the devices are synchronized.

Pro
Native Vim support

It's a Vim plugin, so it's natively tied to Vim itself.

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CSS injection

Live injects CSS. This means that any time that there is a change in the CSS stylesheet, the page does not reload, only the CSS does.

Pro
Error and console support

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Cons

Con
No longer developed

As of November 2015, Adobe is no longer developing Edge Inspect.

Con
Requires a lot of additional software to be installed

Adobe Edge Inspect requires at the bare minimum, the Edge Inspect itself to be installed and a Chrome extension, just to get live-reloading and syncing for desktop. For mobile it requires additional apps to be installed from the Play Store or the App Store.