It’s just some images stacked on top of each other all sharing the same animation, staggered out: wipeĠ% If nothing else, you should check out the Nova landing page for all the CSS trickery! The animated clip-path on the image illustrating Nova’s themes is super cool (I heard clip-path animations are hardware accelerated in Safari, which is great!). I would have guessed Panic even wrote at least parts of Nova in Swift given its Mac-y-ness. It’s interesting that Swift isn’t a built-in language. It’s a lot to see at once, but… kinda cool? I wish it had the option to use Chromium built-in as I happen to be more familiar with those DevTools There are some rough edges too, like my little tmux session in the terminal doesn’t respond to click events. That means file browser, code editor, terminal, browser, and DevTools. I’m wondering if I can get the muscle memory to be able to work within just this one application only without having to do much window-juggling. I do kind of dig that there is a built-in browser (Safari, of course). I otherwise would have used Coda for that, and didn’t even have to set it up for Nova because Panic Sync brought over all that auth info. I just had to do it the other day to edit a file I intentionally keep out of git, so that feature is still handy at times. It’s still a successor to Coda, so if you need to SFTP into remote servers and do direct editing, that’s there. Everything about the UI is just super classy. The window and editor themes are very well done. The minimap looks great with little colored rectangles representing your code. Selecting of coding font preferences is wonderful. For example, I miss an option to “Open this folder in a terminal window.” It’s comforting in a way, because that menu has a lot of powerful things in it.īut it also lacks things that might be contextually useful. In other words, it just feels like an example of emphasizing Mac-y-ness over usefulness.Īnother mega Mac-y-ness thing is right-clicking a folder to open the file browser: it’s exactly like right-clicking a folder in the Finder. I can save that scope with a custom name which is a neat idea, but it has the very verbose UI-heavy search scoping from the MacOS Finder rather than a quick input field where I can quickly type *.js to scope results. Scoping the “find-in-project” search results (say to only return *.js files) requires creating a new search scope. The Mac-ness of Nova is very, very strong. That said, it seems to return good search results. My only issue so far is that it seems get stuck on “Indexing Files…” for me quite a bit (or feels stuck because it gets the ol’ fan spinning). “Find-in-project” is something I do at least a dozen times a day, so that’s something that needs to work tremendously well for me. For example, I don’t need a plugin to make my indendations all rainbow-ified because they already are! But notice the JSX isn’t particularly well highlighted even though it’s on the right syntax. It would be a bonus to me if the default behavior of Nova was so good off the shelf that it didn’t need as many third-party tweaks (aside from the two biggies I already mentioned). They all add some little nicety to VS Code for me specifically. I have nearly 30 VS Code extensions activated. I was able to map all the things I’m used to, like setting Command-T to “Open Quickly” which is like the “Go to file…” setup in VS Code. It does have all the extra fancy things Emmet can do though, which you can map to whatever keys you want. The default expansion for Emmet is Ctrl-E though, and it doesn’t work with Tab expansion (as far as I can tell), which isn’t my favorite. Fortunately, they are some of the top extensions. If I couldn’t have those, I’d be out for sure. I really, really like Prettier and Emmet. There has to be some killer feature that makes it appealing.As in, I can re-learn things after the transition. I’ve written about switching code editors before. It’s going to be hard to dislodge my VS Code muscle memory. I work on a team where everyone else also uses VS Code. Like a lot of other people, I’m on the VS Code train. I got a little discount as it went live, so I bought it and am using it here and there. I played with some of the betas as they were building it. It’s like “Coda 3” except this was such a major re-write that they gave it a whole new name. Nova is a new (vehemently macOS-only) code editor from Panic, the folks behind Coda.
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