Development environments for google-chrome-extension

Currently I am coding my google-chrome-extensions using a combination of notepad and开发者_StackOverflow the chrome console. I am 100% sure that there is a better way of programming these extensions. What environments are people using?

I'm using Notepad++ which works beautifully.

You might consider trying the crossrider beta to build cross-browser extensions. I've found the experience on Chrome superb so far.

Your preferred IDE (eg. NetBeans) and Google Chrome (you have to test on something, right?).

You might want to check:

1. NetBean 7.0 (They have a great version for web development that let you write HTML,CSS and JS with all the great code sniff/highlight/complete stuff)

2. Eclipse got some good version for web dev (PDT and others).

3. Notepad++ , UltraEdit, TextPad or any other good editor you like.

As for the debug, profile and test mode - you have the developers tool in Chrome that are excellent. You might want to check out this short video that give lots of useful tips: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOEw9iiopwI

Good luck!