Dash

Today we’ll be talking about Dash and how it has helped me through my journey at Flatiron School.

What is Dash?

Here’s is a little excerpt from their website:

“Dash is an API Documentation Browser and Code Snippet Manager. Dash stores snippets of code and instantly searches offline documentation sets for 150+ APIs (for a full list, see below). You can even generate your own docsets or request docsets to be included.”

It is basically an offline API documentation, instead of going through google or the ruby-doc.org you can just press 'Control + H' on sublime and it will pull up any code you have questions about.

I have been using this little app for a little less than a week, but so far it has been such a time saver! I would have to pull up my browser, then go to google, then start searching for what I was looking for.

This app is great for people who want to start learning a new language, veterans who sometimes forget how to format code, people who do their coding offline, or people that want to save some keystrokes!

Installation:

• Just pull up the App Store
• Search for Dash
• Install it

Some notes about the first time running Dash:
Go to the downloads window and start installing the languages you need, Dash comes with some documentation but sometimes your specific language may not be pre-downloaded.

I first found out about Dash during a lecture with Steven Nunez, I was amazed as to how fast he pulled up the Ruby documentation, I said to myself, I need to get that!

So far my journey with Dash and all its goodness has been great! Every single lab I do and need help on, I just pull up Dash and it will give me an example on how things should be formatted and structured.