HACKER Q&A
📣 oldtimer1010

Is Adobe Dreamweaver still useful?


Remember the old days when Frontpage, Dreamweaver and others provided a WYSIWYG way to create HTMl pages (despite generated code being really mangled, it usually worked)?

I noticed that Adobe Dreamweaver is still available as a seemingly actively developed product. Does anyone uses it for building or maintaining anything significant? Can it help one in creating modern responsive websites, e.g., a small ecommerce shopfront, a blog, etc? Does it integrate well with any of the modern JS frameworks (Vue.js, React, etc) ?

  👤 _notme Accepted Answer ✓
Last I looked at Dreamweaver was sometime in ~2013. It seemed to be an HTML focused IDE, specifically designed to try to show DOM elements and nesting, as well as provide shortcuts for generating baseboard HTML code.

Today? From scrubbing through their site it seems like it's more of that still, with new responsive features thrown in. It's likely a series of templates you can use, and then they somehow try to tie you into other products.

👤 liberia
Not sure about using it for a blog. I used it back in the day (didn’t know it’s still actively developed). I never liked it since I want full control over all the code and manually editing documents in Notepad++ is a lot better. Couple a text editor with the LiveReload browser addon and you see instant changes you have made in the text editor of choice.
👤 brudgers
Why not just give it a try?

Scratch your itch.

Think of the price as entertainment money.

Good luck.