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Re:Electron is flash for the desktop (2016) by LeoNatan25 on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @03:31PM (#14091592)
For me, refactoring is something that is nice to have, certainly, but not what defines an IDE. The debugging and development facilities are what matter most.
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Re:Electron is flash for the desktop (2016) by krisdol on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @04:43PM (#14101559)
A lot of that is available in "text editors" like Atom (and I assume VSCode). Of course, it depends on if someone wrote a plugin for your language of choice.
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