I am new to trying to become a Web designer. I have downloaded Sublime Text 3 as my choice of Debugging tool and as soon as I feel that I can use it for Web site design with bootstrap, ruby on rails, json, java script and the like. I intend to purchase it. I have faith that what I want to use this tool for, it is very capable of performing. I just need the instructions.
That being said, I can NOT find a tutorial that explains how to set up my Sublime Text 3 to split or show my web site as the code is being modified. I have not figured out how to debug in ANY language but I’ve seen the Sublime Text tool doing these very things in classes of differing languages.
Can you assist me in getting my system up to speed and me in possibly learning the proper way to set this up and access it?
I appreciate your time and efforts in assisting me. I thank you in advance for all the expert knowledge.
Sincerely,
Fred Schilling.
The Window that displays what the HTML web site will look like
Sublime is a text editor, not an IDE. As such it doesn’t have the ability to render your web page for you (that’s the job of your web browser). You can install plugins that make this easier though. For example LiveReload connects Sublime and your web browser together to tell it to reload the page every time you save a change.
Since Sublime is a text editor and not an IDE, it doesn’t have debugging built in either. Again, there are plugins you can install that add that sort of ability. For example Web Inspector adds the ability to debug JavaScript from inside Sublime.
I would recommend installing PackgeControl if you haven’t already as your first order of business. In the latest version you can use Tools > Install Package Control from the menu to install it. The menu entry is not visible if PackageControl is already installed.
Once you have that you can browse the packages that are available (this is easier at the PackageControl Website) to get a feel for what third party functionality you can add to Sublime over an above what it can do out of the box.
I would also recommend a read through of the unofficial documentation if you haven’t already to quickly get yourself up to speed with the basics of using Sublime; this will also give you a good feel for what is possible without having to dip into the land of plugins.
I have gotten , somewhere further along in my journey. This is only due to your assistance. I thank you sincerely.
