Out of the box, VS Code is a powerful text editor with a lot of great functionality. In addition to being highly configurable and customizable, it possesses an incredibly rich extensions ecosystem. We'll need to install some of these extensions so we won't need to use different editors for different programming languages. In this section, we will cover how to configure VS Code and which extensions to install to simplify the WebAssembly development process.
Customizing and configuring VS Code is simple and intuitive. You can manage custom settings such as editor font and tab sizes by selecting Code
| Preferences
| Settings
on macOS or File
| Preferences
| Settings
on Windows. User and workspace settings are managed separately in JSON files and auto completion is provided in case you can't remember the exact name of a setting. You can also change the themes or keyboard shortcuts by selecting the appropriate option in the Preferences
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