Using Visual Studio Code

After more than one year using Visual Studio Code to work in the majority of my web application projects. This post will show some tips to get the best of this awesome editor as a complete and integrated development tool.

Main Features

First of all, Visual Studio Code has a lot of features.

• Free and open source: The project is hosted on GitHub and it’s free to download, fork, modify and contribute to the project.
• Multi-platform: You can download binaries for different platforms, included Windows (x64), MacOS and Linux (.rpm and .deb packages)
• LightWeight: It runs smoothly in different devices. It has an average memory and CPU usage. Starts almost immediately and it’s very stable.
• Extended language support: Supports by default the majority of the most used languages and syntax like Javascript, HTML, C#, Swift, Java, PHP, Python and others. Also, VS Code supports different file types associated to projects like .ini, .properties, XML and JSON files.
• Integrated tools: Includes an integrated terminal, debugger, problem list and console output inspector. The project navigator sidebar is simple and powerful: you can manage your files and folders with ease. The command palette helps you find commands by text. The search widget has a powerful…