What development environment is the most popular these days?

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It’s been a while since I developed an Umbraco website.
The last one I created was using Umbraco 8 with Visual Studio 2019 and SQL Server and things have moved on a fair bit since then.

Is Visual Studio still the most popular or are people using something else like VS Code?

I’m about to start a new project with Umbraco 15 so I’d appreciate an update from those who are still commercially active.

All of my experience and knowledge dates back from Umbraco 4 so Visual Studio is what I know and I’d be happy to continue with it but I’m also happy learn something new if it’s advantageous.

Thanks,

Matt

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I personally still use Visual Studio for most things, although Rider is also getting pretty popular. For the ‘frontend’ stuff in Umbraco, like Lit, Vite and Typescript, Visual Studio Code is probably the way to go. Personally I can manage enough in Visual Studio, but I recognize that Code with certain plugins is way better than the full Visual Studio.

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I use Visual Studio for general Umbraco work (backend code + cshtml views). I can recommend the following extensions also:

For backoffice extensions I go with VS Code. I feel its much better suited at modern frontend stuff (js etc.)

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I use Rider for any .NET work.
I’m currently swapping between IDEs for frontend / JS-like work. Currently using WebStorm and Cursor and other flavors.

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It might also depend on the license/cost for the ide involved? :thinking:
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I mainly use VSCode and thus suffer steadily, as C# support for VSCode is bearable at best.

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