Brackets vs CodeMirror: What are the differences?

What is Brackets? A modern, open source text editor that understands web design. With focused visual tools and preprocessor support, Brackets is a modern text editor that makes it easy to design in the browser. Try Creative Cloud Extract (preview) for Brackets for an easy way to get clean, minimal CSS straight from a PSD with no generated code.

What is CodeMirror? In-browser code editor used in the dev tools for both Firefox and Chrome, Light Table, Adobe Brackets, Bitbucket, and many other projects. CodeMirror is a JavaScript component that provides a code editor in the browser. When a mode is available for the language you are coding in, it will color your code, and optionally help with indentation.

Brackets and CodeMirror can be categorized as "Text Editor" tools.

Some of the features offered by Brackets are:

• Code Hints from a PSD
• Inline Editors
• Live Preview

On the other hand, CodeMirror provides the following key features:

• Support for over 60 languages out of the box
• A powerful, composable language mode system
• Autocompletion (XML)

"Beautiful UI" is the top reason why over 46 developers like Brackets, while over 3 developers mention "Integrable in your application" as the leading cause for choosing CodeMirror.

Brackets and CodeMirror are both open source tools. It seems that Brackets with 29.9K GitHub stars and 6.42K forks on GitHub has more adoption than CodeMirror with 18K GitHub stars and 3.92K GitHub forks.

According to the StackShare community, Brackets has a broader approval, being mentioned in 36 company stacks & 32 developers stacks; compared to CodeMirror, which is listed in 24 company stacks and 11 developer stacks.