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Brackets Extensions

Madan Kumar edited this page Jul 27, 2017 · 267 revisions

Opening Extension Manager

Click on the icon that looks like this Extension Manager icon near the upper-right corner of the window, or choose File > Extension Manager...

Installing and Removing Extensions

You can browse a list of available extensions in the Available tab of the Extension Manager, and click Install to install an extension with one click. Use the filter field to search across the extension name, description, author, and all other fields.

Extension Manager Registry

The extension listing

The extension listing comes from the online Brackets Extension Registry. If you're an extension author, please publish your extension to the registry so it's available for others to find.

Removing Extensions

Under the Installed tab, click on the Remove button to mark an extension for removal. When you close Extension Manager, Brackets will need to restart in order to finish removing the selected extensions. (You can save your work or choose to cancel the restart first. If you cancel the restart, you'll need to reselect the extensions extensions to remove later).

If an extension breaks Brackets to the point where Extension Manager is unusable, see the "Manual" section below to remove the extension.

Updating Extensions

When an extension update is available, a green Update button will appear in the Installed tag. Updating extensions also requires a Brackets restart (see "Removing Extensions" above).

Manual Install/Remove/Update

From a URL

  • Install - Open Extension Manager and click the Install from URL... button at the bottom. Enter a URL to a ZIP file or the URL to a GitHub repo (if the extension doesn't require any special build/packaging).
  • Remove - Use Extension Manager normally.
  • Update - Click the "Install from URL..." button again and enter a URL to the updated version.

Directly on disk

  1. Choose Help > Show Extensions Folder (or open it manually)
  2. Drill down to the user folder
  3. Add/remove or update the set of extension folders as needed
  4. Quit and re-launch Brackets

Old Extensions List

Some older Brackets extensions are not listed in Extension Manager. These extensions may no longer work in current versions of Brackets.

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