14 NetBeans Web Development Tips in 7 Minutes
Thursday, May 29, 2014 |14 NetBeans Web Development Tips in 7 Minutes
Recently, Geertjan Wielenga, Principal Product Manager in the Oracle Developer Tools group, posted a video on his blog showing "14 NetBeans Web Development Tips in 7 Minutes", which showed off several nice tips for the IDE (#1 and #5 are my favorites). If you’re like me, sometimes you don’t have (or don’t want to make) time to watch a video, so I thought I’d make a table of contents for the video, with links to relevant portion of it for those that would like to read the list and watch only the parts that interest them.
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You can quickly drag and drop resources from the Projects window into HTML files |
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You can use predefined code templates to generate chunks of HTML. Press TAB to expand the template |
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which can be easily configured and you can create new ones. |
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"scr" expands to "script", which has a hidden feature: code completion when you press Ctrl-Space. |
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Hold down the CTRL key and the selected references is a hyperlink that can be clicked to open the file. |
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Select the content of a tag and press CTRL-R, if you want to change both sides of the tag at once. |
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Ctrl-Shift-Up/Down and Alt-Shift-Up/Down copy/move lines up and down. |
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7 |
Splitting a document window is easy… |
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…and you can also drag a document to split the editor area. |
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8 |
Use the Options window to configure the editors for all the languages you use. |
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You can change the tab position, e.g, make all the tabs in the editor be displayed in the bottom of the editor. |
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The Terminal Window can be very useful. No need to switch of NetBeans to the command line anymore. |
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11 |
Each HTML5 project integrates with the standard HTML5 technologies, e.g., SASS, Cordova, Karma, etc. |
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Block selection lets you change code across multiple lines. |
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13 |
Press Ctrl-Shift-Enter to create a "notepad look and feel", i.e., a very simplified version of the IDE, without toolbars, etc. |
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Want to see the spaces and tabs? That can be done too. |
If you have time, of course, watch the whole thing. If you’d just like to see the list of tips, there you have it. :)
