Which editor for editing themes?

Themes
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I do Ghost themes professionally and this is what I use.

Editor

Visual Studio Code as my main text editor.

Zip

I use gulp.js with gulp-zip to export the final zip file. My current Gulp zip task is something like.

gulp.task('zip', function () {
  return gulp.src([
    './**',
    '!node_modules/**',
    '!bower_components/**',
    '!.git/**',
    '!.DS_Store'
  ], { dot: true })
  .pipe(zip('NAME.zip'))
  .pipe(gulp.dest('../'))
  done();
});

So, with the gulp zip command, I can export the final theme file.

If you are not using gulp and want a simple command line to zip the theme, you can use something like.

zip -r NAME.zip NAME -x '*node_modules*' '*bower_components*'

What comes after the -x option is a way to exclude different directories or files. In this case, we are excluding the node_modules and bower_components directories from the final zip file.

Deployment

I use the Deploy Ghost Theme Github action. I wrote a step by step guide about it at Ghost Tips & Tricks #3 / Deploy Your Ghost Theme Using Github Actions

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