Essential Plugins for Atom v1.0

With Atom 1.0 out, a revised list of handy plugins I’ve found for the Atom text editor.

• save-session - Remember unsaved buffers when you kill and restart Atom - an essential feature if you’re coming from Sublime.

• valign - ctrl-\ to vertically align assignments. You can configure the hotkey in keymap.cson:

    '.editor':
        'ctrl-cmd-a': 'vertical-align:align.
  

• color-picker
  • shift-cmd-c to edit HTML colors.
• linter-coffeelint - Highlight problems in coffee-script. Add a coffeelint.json file to your project to change settings. Note that this needs linter installed to work.
• atom-monokai - The monokai color theme (should be familiar if you’re a Sublime user.)
• pigments - Show web colors in background of file.

Update: more suggestions from Mac Pham:

• atom-beautify - Quickly beautify HTML, JSON, and more.
• autocomplete-paths - Handy for requiring packages.
• file-icons - Pretty icons in your sidebar.
• merge-conflicts - Resolve git merge conflicts in your editor.
• minimap - Mini-map sidebar on right hand side, like Sublime.
• react - React support.
• tabs-to-spaces - Convert tabs to spaces (or the reverse.)
• dockblockr - Automatic creation of documentation comments.