Best editor for AWS CloudFormation template (JSON)

Fri, 06 Nov 2015 21:56:03 +0000

AWS CloudFormation template is a way to describe the AWS resources that can be created/updated/deleted and it’s in JSON format. Like many other programming languages most of the editors/IDE don’t have proper syntax highlighting for JSON.

For a long time I was using notepad++ and the built-in Javascript syntax highlighting which doesn’t provide much granular highlighting. I was looking for a much better editor and finally found Atom, the most powerful editor by GitHub. It provides the ability to customize almost everything in it. It also can be extended using huge list of packages and themes.

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Best editor for AWS CloudFormation template (JSON)