1.2 Setting Up The Editor

Editor Options

There are different ways you can set up your editor.

Online Editors

Online JavaScript editors are good options:

These editors are certainly convenient, but a local editor can give you a lot more options and features and are typically features.

Local Editor

We are going to use a IDE (Integrated Development Environment) Visual Studio Code (aka VSCode).

<aside> 💡 If you want to use a different IDE that you are comfortable with, then you definitely should!

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You can download VSCode here: Visual Studio Code.


Once downloaded, we will install some extensions that will make your programming experience much easier.


<aside> ⚠️ Throughout the course, we will mainly be speaking with the assumption that you are using a local editor.

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