Why is everyone switching to VS Code?
Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats
Wes Bos
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 20 September 2017
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Scott and Wes talk about switching to VS Code. What is so good about it? Killer features? Must have Plugins!
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Show Notes
- Cobalt2 for VS Code
- Visual Studio Code
- @rachsmithtweets 🔥 rename symbol tip - you should follow her too!
- Use F8 to cycle through inline errors
- Open the problems tab to see all your applications errors and warnings
- The built in debugger
- ESlint Package
- You can use the Prettier Package on it's own, or use via your .eslintrc file and just use the above ESLint plugin.
- Git History
- Git Lens
- Debugger for Chrome
- Color Highlight
- Settings:
"editor.formatOnSave": trueand"eslint.autoFixOnSave": true - Wes' Current ESLint + Prettier Config
- Grumpy Developer
- Import Cost
- Path Intellisense
- npm Intellisense
- CSS Intellisense
- PHP Intellisense
- Another PHP Intellisense
- Custom CSS and JS Loader
- Cobalt2 Theme
- Material Theme
- Material Pale Night Theme
- Version Lens for npm
- Project Manager
- ⌘ + # Tabs Key Bindings
- Scott's VS Code Series on YouTube
- Sublime Keymap for VS Code
- ES6 Absolute Imports with Webpack
Sick Picks
- Scott: Moonwalking with Einstein
- Wes: Yeti Rambler
- Wes: Ozark Trail 20oz
- Scott outdoes Wes by 3oz: Bottl
Shameless Plugs
- Level Up Tuts - check out scott's new shopping cart!
- Wes' Courses
- Stickers are coming!
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Syntax, where we deliver tasty treats for web developers. Hello everybody welcome to syntax. |
| 0:18.0 | Hopefully you're ready for another week of tasty treats. |
| 0:22.0 | Today we're going to be talking all about VS code. for another week of tasty treats. |
| 0:22.6 | Today we're gonna be talking all about |
| 0:24.0 | V.S. Code, Visual Studio Code, |
| 0:26.2 | which is the hottest editor up and coming. |
| 0:29.0 | I've recently switched to it from Sublime Text. |
| 0:31.4 | Scott has been on it for a number of months now kind of |
| 0:34.4 | dancing between Sublime and Adam. So we're going to be talking about like |
| 0:37.4 | why is everybody switching over to it? What is so good about it? Why you keep |
| 0:40.8 | hearing about it? So let's jump into it. How you doing |
| 0:45.0 | Scott? Doing super good. Super good. I just finished that, you know, I've been |
| 0:50.2 | talking a lot about my rewrite of my cart system and stuff like that I just |
| 0:53.8 | wrapped it up it's going to be coming out as of at the time of recording it's |
| 0:57.6 | tomorrow but it will be at the time of release this podcast today which is |
| 1:01.7 | weird to time travel like that. |
| 1:03.0 | So, yeah, so it'll be out on Wednesday, |
| 1:06.0 | and it shouldn't really mean a whole ton for a lot of people, |
| 1:08.0 | but it's a huge thing off my plate |
| 1:10.0 | so that I'm going to be just opening the floodgates for now new content, which isn't, I've just been, you know, dying to get this done so that I can just start grinding out a ton and ton of new stuff. |
| 1:21.0 | So, happy to get that done and hoping that it launches and |
| 1:24.2 | releases without any sort of troubles fingers crossed right on so I've been |
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