ExpressionEngine Developer’s Toolkit
Building ExpressionEngine sites on a Mac? We’re gathering all the resources you need to make your ExpressionEngine development as stream-lined as possible. Whether you use Mountee or not, these tools should transform your workflow. And they’re all completely free.
Coda Resources
Coda offers a variety of different ways to customise and extend, including modes, plugins and snippets. Here are some which may be useful for your ExpressionEngine projects.
ExpressionEngine 2 Syntax Mode
We’ve created a brand new syntax mode for ExpressionEngine, which adds syntax highlighting and auto-completion to Coda for your EE templates. Once installed it will recognise your EE templates and open them in the correct syntax mode.
Installation
- Download and unzip ExpressionEngine.mode
- Drag the folder into ~/Library/Application Support/Coda/Modes (If the Modes folder doesn’t exist, create it)
- If Coda’s running, quit and relaunch.
Lion users: To view ~/Library/, use Go to Folder… from the Go menu in Finder.
Mountee Plug-in
This plug-in adds the ability to launch the Mountee File Preferences window for the file you are currently editing in Coda. You can use either the menu item, or the keyboard shortcut (⌥⇧⌘I).
Installation
- Download, unzip and double-click!
ExpressionEngine 2 Clips
Created by Stefan Rechsteiner
Stefan Rechsteiner created a great bunch of Coda Clips which include tab triggering. Find out more details on his blog.
Installation
- Download, unzip and double-click!
Espresso Resources
Espresso is a gorgeous app with a unified workflow. Here are some ways to extend it for EE projects.
ExpressionEngine 2 Sugar
Developed by Tom Davies
Tom Davies has started work on a alpha version of an updated sugar for EE 2. More details on github and this EE Forum post.
Installation
- Download, unzip and double-click!
ExpressionEngine 1.x Sugar
Developed by Anthony Short
This Espresso sugar gives adds the EE template syntax, giving you codesense, itemizers and more. More details on github
Installation
- Download, unzip and double-click!
Textmate Resources
Textmate is the heavy-lifter of Mac Text-Editors.
