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Visual Studio Code Quick Walk through

Open With Code

With VScode downloaded you can

  • Create a file
  • Right click, open with code
  • Code Runner (Recommended for JavaScript Section)
  • Playwright Test for VSCode
  • Path Intellisense
  • Prettier Code formatter
  • Code Spell Checker
  • Better Comments
  • VScode Icons (As preference)
  • Theme of Choice (As preference)

Opening the Terminal

While in VScode, there is a terminal built in! Just click 'terminal' at the top and click 'New Terminal' After that is completed it will open up your preferred terminal of choice (I use bash)

While in the VSCode terminal you can double check your versions of node and npm with the following commands.

sh
node -v
sh
npm -v

Selecting A Theme

to select a theme, you can use the shortcut control + k + t or click file -> preferences -> color theme

Some nice themes

  • Material Theme
  • Monokai
  • ninja-ui-vibrant
  • Snazzy Operator
  • Tokyo Night