Hello and welcome to this video.
We will be downloading and installing the brackets.
Text editor what is brackets.
Brackets is a light weight and open source modern text editor by open source.
It means the source code is open for developers to contribute in making it better brackets was created
using java script the functionality of the brackets text editor can be extended by installing various
extensions brackets can be downloaded from brackets dot I O so let's go over to the brackets website
to download and then install brackets.
This is the brackets of official website and the current version as of the time I am recording this
video is version one point 1 3.
So depending on the operating system you are using you can download the relevant one for your operating
system.
If you're on a Mac you just download it extract it and then you drag the TMG phone in to your Applications
folder and that all install it.
Going to illustrate using a Windows based computer.
So I'm just going to click on the download link here and that whole begin to download.
You can see here my download has started.
I just give it a few minutes to complete and then our run the installation file on the website as well.
If you scroll down to the bottom you can see some popular extensions here that have been listed and
also there all the information's relating to brackets.
So that's my download they're completed.
I'm just going to double click on it to run the installation.
It's trying to set it up so it gives me the prompt for a destination.
So I'm just going to accept the default.
I just click install and then there are some options here that are checked if he wants to and check
you.
Campbell I would advise you to leave it checked.
Makes it a lot easier for the installation process.
So click on the next button.
And click install if you are on the windows you may get an antivirus or security pop up.
Just click to accept it.
Installing this on Mac is fairly straightforward.
You just drag the TMG file which is a disk image file in to the Applications folder.
And that would do the installation for you once the installation is completed.
You get a finished button.
Just click finish.
Once you have installed brackets you can also customize brackets to your taste.
So once you've installed brackets you will have it showing up within your programs menu.
So thus brackets there inside my programs menu.
So I'm just going to click on it to launch the application.
If you are on a Windows machine and you try to launch brackets for the first time after installation
you may get these windows defender firewall which has blocked some features of brackets brackets comes
with a note G as server.
So it sometimes may block it.
So what you need to do is just click on allow access and that will allow the application to launch properly
so this is the default theme that comes with bracket.
But you can also install your own extensions to add your own pain.
So this here this icon here is called the extension manager click click on that.
It allows you to add different extensions to extend the functionality of brackets.
So I'm going to click on themes OK so once you've got the theme to options selected the theme I like
to use is called All s x style just type in style and that will bring.
OK.
And this is the PMI like OS X style I just got flat and black.
So just click on the button here.
Assistant Store and that will install the theme.
You can see is doing that now it tells you it has installed successfully and just click on close.
So now that I've installed a new theme I can go and change that.
So I need to do is click on the view option and then click on themes and here ways go got current theme
I just click on the dropdown.
Now select the one I've just installed which is that while I'm in this area here I can also change the
font size which is the size of the text.
So at the moment the default is 12.
So I can make that 18 and just click Done.
You can see the text is a bit bigger so you can see here.
This change the theme and also change the size of the font.
I also want to install another extension which is called 0 to save files on when the blur.
What this does it automatically save the files when you are exiting the brackets application.
So to do that click on the this of this icon called the extension manager and click on here Waze is
available once you've got available selected type in order to save or to save.
And the one you want is this one here that says oh to save files on when the Blur click install and
that will begin the installation tells you installation is successful.
So what that does is that each time you exit the application it will automatically save your files for
you in this video have downloaded and installed brackets and also installed some extensions to enable
me customize and extend the functionality of brackets.
Thanks for watching and bye for now.