What is Visual Studio Code ?

Visual Studio Code (VS Code) is an open source, lightweight, and full-featured text editor that supports a multitude of extensions for all kinds of developers. If you are getting started in the larger world of web development, VS Code can be a valuable tool. Features such as build scripts, environments, debugging, and more, combined with its role of powerful text editor, are of particular value to new developers. VS Code handles all this in one environment without the traditionally heavy integrated development environment (IDE).

VS Code is built on a platform called Electron, and is available for Windows, macOS, and Linux. This learning module will be as platform-independent as possible. Though some screenshots may be from specific platforms, the information should transfer to any platform with some minor adaptation (for example, shortcut key combinations).

Here’s a list of some of VS Code’s key features:

In this module, you will learn how to install and use VS Code with some basic web development extensions, then use these features to make a very simple web application. Even if you’ve never written a web app, you’ll still be successful with this module. And if you are an experienced web developer, you can still learn many useful things here to get you started with VS Code.