When comparing Slap vs Angular IDE (by Webclipse), the Slant community recommends Angular IDE (by Webclipse) for most people. In the question“What are the best JavaScript IDEs or editors?” Angular IDE (by Webclipse) is ranked 31st while Slap is ranked 45th.
Specs
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Pros
Pro First-class mouse support
Slap supports mouse keybindings even though it works inside the terminal and also through SSH.
Pro Uses desktop-like keybindings
Slap features configurable keybindings (Ctrl+S, Ctrl+Z, etc).
Pro Great terminal interface
Pro Advanced coding of HTML templates with validation and auto-complete
Pro Angular-CLI
Integrated usage of the angular-CLI for Angular best practices.
Pro TypeScript 2.x validation and debugging
Cons
Con Requires node.js
Slap is written in JavaScript and it requires something to interpret it in a local machine. That something is node.js, but for people who don't need node, it would be a hindrance and an overkill to install node just to use a simple text editor. Furthermore, it can only be used remotely if the remote machine has node installed.
Con CLI only
Slap only runs through the terminal.
Con Very slow
Slower as compared to other editors/ides like VScode, Sublime, Comodo.
Con Commercial
Gives only 8 days per month to use all features like automatic imports, code formatting and so on.
