When comparing Codelobster 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 Codelobster is ranked 39th.
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Pros
Pro Advanced support for all popular frameworks
Including Laravel, Bootstrap. jQuery, WordPress, Drupal, Yii and so on.
Pro Special support for JQuery through the jQuery plugin
The jQuery support (when you install the jQuery plugin) is great. It adds function definitions so that autocomplete works as intended. Furthermore, the IDE knows about the logic of the different libraries and frameworks and can understand that $(this)
refers to a jQuery instance.
Pro Great HTML, CSS and JavaScript autocomplete
Codelobster has great HTML, CSS, JavaScript and PHP autocomplete
Pro Free version available
There is a free version available for download; it comes with a lot of features that you would find in an IDE.
Pro Portable option available
Codelobster IDE offers a lightweight, portable option.
Pro Hovering over a CSS property shows you which browsers are supported by that property
This is a really nice feature as it immediately shows you the browsers that support a certain CSS property. Of course, it does not beat actual testing, but it's still a nice feature that saves developers a lot of time.
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 You need to sign up to get a free serial number for the free version
In order to use the free version of Codelobster, you have to sign up and get a free account. This is done to help stopping piracy, but it's still pretty jarring when all you want to do is install a program.
Con Expensive
For the Pro version (which includes all the available plug-ins), the cost is $99.95. The lite version (without plugins) is $39.95.
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.
