Text editor

First of all, you need a JavaScript-friendly text editor. Text editors are important when it comes to writing code. Depending on the features they provide, you can save hours of development time. There are some really good text editors out there with excellent languages support. We are going to be using JavaScript in this book, so I'd recommend getting one of these open source JavaScript-friendly text editors:

• Atom: http://atom.io
• Visual Studio Code: http://code.visualstudio.com
• Brackets: http://brackets.io/

You can also try Sublime Text: https://www.sublimetext.com/, which is a great text editor, but unlike the previously mentioned ones, Sublime Text is commercial and you need to pay for continued usage. There is also another commercial product WebStorm: https://www.jetbrains.com/webstorm/, which is a full-fledged Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for JavaScript. It comes with various tools for debugging and integration with JavaScript frameworks. You might want to give it a try sometime.