Getting ready

This section assumes that you have Sublime Text or Visual Studio installed.

Sublime Text is a very popular text editor that is geared to working with code and projects. You can download a fully functional evaluation version from http://www.sublimetext.com. If you find it useful and decide to continue to use it, you will be encouraged to purchase a license, but there is currently no enforced time limit.

How to do it...

Sublime Text does not support CoffeeScript out of the box. Thankfully, a package manager exists for Sublime Text; this package manager provides access to hundreds of extension packages, including ones that provide helpful and productive tools to work with CoffeeScript.

With Package Control installed, you can easily install the CoffeeScript packages that are available using the Package Control option under the Preferences menu. Select the Install Package option.

To install the CoffeeScript package, open the Install Package window and enter CoffeeScript. This will display the CoffeeScript-related packages. We will use the Better CoffeeScript package:

As you can see, the CoffeeScript package includes syntax highlighting, commands, shortcuts, snippets, and compilation.

How it works...

In this section, we will explain the different keyboard shortcuts and code snippets available with the Better CoffeeScript package for Sublime.