Sublime is great and for many still the best text editor available. But out of the box, it lacks some features that modern competitors have already built-in. Plugins help to stay ahead but it's a hassle to keep up with all of them. In order to help you, I compiled a list of plugins I use for my daily frontend web development.
If you know plugins that should be on this list, just open an issue. 😉
These plugins are kind of 'meta' because they are not concerned with writing code.
Useful for all languages.
Linters help you to spot mistakes in your code early on. In order to make them work properly, check the instructions in the packages. For some, you have to install additional tools.
The built-in themes do not support recent syntax such as ES2015. In the following, I list some I have test and do it.
{
// Disallows approving auto-complete suggestions with 'enter' to prevent ambiguous situations.
// You have to get used to it but also Sublime strongly recommends it.
"auto_complete_commit_on_tab": true,
"auto_complete_delay": 0,
// Allow auto-complete suggestion within snippets.
"auto_complete_with_fields": true,
"color_scheme": "Packages/Solarized Color Scheme/Solarized (light).tmTheme",
"create_window_at_startup": false,
"draw_white_space": "all",
"ensure_newline_at_eof_on_save": true,
"font_face": "Input Sans Narrow",
"font_size": 15,
"highlight_line": true,
"ignored_packages":
[
"CSS",
"Vintage"
],
// Highlights the indentation of the current scope.
"indent_guide_options":
[
"draw_normal",
"draw_active"
],
"indent_to_bracket": true,
"rulers":
[
80
],
"tab_size": 2,
"translate_tabs_to_spaces": true,
// NB: the following could lead to a lot of (unnecessary) changes in other's peoples files
"trim_trailing_white_space_on_save": true,
"word_wrap": true
}