What is your Sublime Text workflow?

7 points by joshearl ↗ HN
I'm curious: What does your editing workflow look like when you work with Sublime? What type of development do you do, and what plugins and features are most useful?

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1. Open Sublime Text 2. Write code like a bawss 3. There is no step 3
So you never get around to releasing your code either, eh?
For PHP/coffeescript/LessCSS projects, here is something that I use:

I create a Phing build file in build/build.xml. Then I map a key combination (alt+super+b) that builds the default Phing target defined in that file. I find this helpful for quickly compiling Coffeescript and Less CSS on my local machine.

PHP/Rails web developer here using OSX:

I like to keep ST full screen with the file browser hidden (Cmd + K + B) with just the code being displayed. When I need to find a file in the project I simply use the file finder (Cmd + P), or if I can't recall the file name or need to create new files I open back the file browser (Again using Cmd + K + B).

I don't really take full advantage of ST plugins, sometimes use Emmet and have BracketHighlighter installed.

Theme wise I use the Tomorrow-Night-Eighties colour scheme, Soda Dark theme along with Menlo 12 font.

I also keep chrome open full screen again in another window and swipe across to that when I need to view changes (Gets automatically updated when made using the LiveReload app).

I write Javascript/PHP/HTML/CSS in Sublime 2 on Windows 8 with Chrome for previewing.

My main workflow is to have my active projects added on the file browser so I have ctrl+p to find files, I have Chrome open on my second monitor and I use the fantastic SFTP plugin to upload to my server on save. I use the LivePage Chrome plugin to reload pages when something changes - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/livepage/pilnojpmd...