My Favourite Atom Packages (Plugins) 2020
I did a list for this last year, updating it again for this year, i will add and remove packages as i change them. This is just my personal preferences for atom as i usually code in js css html and php with a small amount of aspx. Listed in no particular Order.
I kept loosing packages when i reinstalled atom until i found the package sync-settings, you can add a gist to your github account and link the package there where it will keep a backup of all of your atom settings incase you want to restore it on another pc or re-install which is nice.
You can also browse through all the packages and sort them by downloads if you want to see the most installed ones.
sync-settings
very useful for syncing your settings and plugins and even themes between different atoms, keeps a copy in a git gist for easy linking in all
atom-html-preview
you can preview a html file you are editing, it loads it in another pane so when you update the html file and save it it auto reloads the preview very handy!
Access it with: CTRL+SHIFT+H
ftp-remote-edit
Edit remotely files on your ftp/sftp(ssh) server without a project. All your connection information will be encrypted.
Very useful for directly editing files on ftp servers directly into atom.
atom-beautify
Beautify HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Python, Ruby, Java, C, C++, C#, Objective-C, CoffeeScript, TypeScript, Coldfusion, SQL, and more in Atom.
Makes your code much more Beautiful!
autoclose-html
Automates closing of HTML Tags
file-icons
Assign file extension icons and colours for improved visual grepping
highlight-selected
Highlights the current word selected when double clicking
pigments
A package to display colors in project and files.
This one detects hex codes or rgb(a) codes and adds the colour to them good addition to the next colour picker plugin.
It show the colours inline like the following example:
color-picker
Right click or press CMD-SHIFT-C/CTRL-ALT-C to open it.
Loads a colour picker from the editor, just highlight the colour and press the above key combo to load it saves loading into gimp or chrome and using that colour picker.
Save Workspace
not yet tested this one, but thought it might be good as when starting up atom, it takes a few minutes to get back to where you were before.
https://atom.io/packages/save-workspace
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"Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything. 'Are you feeling all right?' I asked her. 'I feel all sleepy,' she said. In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead. The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was...in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her. On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunised against measles. ...I dedicated two of my books to Olivia, the first was ‘James and the Giant Peach’. That was when she was still alive. The second was ‘The BFG’, dedicated to her memory after she had died from measles. You will see her name at the beginning of each of these books. And I know how happy she would be if only she could know that her death had helped to save a good deal of illness and death among other children."
I just checked google books for BFG, and the dedication is there.
https://www.google.com.au/books/edition/_/quybcXrFhCIC?hl=en&gbpv=1
Roald Dahl, 1986
