Jay Kimble

I just saw an article talking about a new Ruby product from JetBrains. One of the side effects of this product is that they offer refactoring support for JS code. <yawn />

I had to chuckle a bit. I guess my love affair with the Developer Express’ Code Rush/Refactor Pro (CR/RP) addin continues to pay off… I’ve had refactorings for JavaScript AND HTML/ASP.NET markup for about a year (and they added it a long time ago). If you didn’t know that… now you do (they keep finding new places to add refactorings… it seems like nearly every file in your project is fair game with their addin.)

The more I work with CR/RP the more I love it. I keep finding new things I can do with it. Their most recent version actually contains a feature that I missed from ReSharper (code analysis… they will make code improvement suggestions and can auto-implement it).

There’s also a new community addin that builds some test runner facilities within the IDE (although not as mature as ReSharpers).

One thing to remember though… with CR/RP you need to somewhat relearn to use your IDE and you need to tame their addin a little for your own purposes… going through their training videos is a must (unlike ReSharper). At the end of it you will be MORE productive with CR/RP (although it’s debatable whether you would be more productive with it over ReSharper… it’s a preference thing.. I personally think I am more productive though).

[NOTE: I don’t work for DevExpress and they don’t pay me to do this… in fact I’m currently out of date on my product upgrades which ended in Dec. The release I’m using is from November… and it absolutely rocks]