Welcome to the Treehouse Community

Want to collaborate on code errors? Have bugs you need feedback on? Looking for an extra set of eyes on your latest project? Get support with fellow developers, designers, and programmers of all backgrounds and skill levels here with the Treehouse Community! While you're at it, check out some resources Treehouse students have shared here.

Looking to learn something new?

Treehouse offers a seven day free trial for new students. Get access to thousands of hours of content and join thousands of Treehouse students and alumni in the community today.

Start your free trial

Development Tools

Michael Knox
Michael Knox
4,510 Points
Posted by Michael Knox
Michael Knox
4,510 Points

HTML / CSS - Design Workflow (Software, etc.)

How do most developers write code and preview changes in an efficient manner? I'm currently using Sublime Text as my text editor, and saving the html + css files, then refreshing a browser window whenver I need to preview changes. This seems like a less than ideal solution.

I'm familiar with CodePen and the live-preview of code written on the site - but it doesn't seem like most developers would use CodePen to build a site from scratch (seems more like a platform to tinker with new ideas?).

Any help would be much appreciated - or just point me to where this has been answered before.

Thanks,!

1 Answer

Adam N
Adam N
70,280 Points
Adam N
Adam N
70,280 Points

For simple stuff like following along with a course I use live-server. You need node installed on your computer to install it.

Here's a video about it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q78u9lBXvj0