Every version of Brackets had more than 100,000 downloads, and it was the 16th most popular project on GitHub as of January 16, 2015. Brackets contains contributions by more than 282 community contributors and has more than 400 requests for bug fixes and new features.

With the release of Brackets 1.0, Adobe announced that the development of an open source application for web development was ready and was not an experimental project any more. This effort was later transformed into Adobe Brackets.

Īdobe first started development of a text editor for web development on Edge Code, which was discontinued as of November 2014. The latest version release of Brackets is 2.0.1. The Brackets project was subsequently transferred to become a community-owned and driven project. In March 2021, Adobe announced it would end their support for Brackets on September 1, 2021. However, Extract is still available via Photoshop and Dreamweaver, both of which are part of their paid service, Adobe Creative Cloud. As of June 28, 2016, the feature is officially discontinued, due to low usage. With release of version 1.0, Adobe announced a feature that extracts design information from a PSD file for convenience of coding in CSS. Brackets has a major focus on development in JavaScript-enabled, CSS and HTML. The update introduced new features such as custom shortcut key combinations and more accurate JavaScript hinting. On November 4, 2014, Adobe announced the first (1.0) release of Brackets. The main purpose of Brackets is its live HTML, CSS and JavaScript editing functionality. Brackets is cross-platform, available for macOS, Windows, and most Linux distributions. It is written in JavaScript, HTML and CSS. Created by Adobe Inc., it is free and open-source software licensed under the MIT License, and is currently maintained on GitHub by open-source developers. Brackets is a source code editor with a primary focus on web development.

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