VS Code is a light and powerful code editor that offers IntelliSense, debugging, source control, task definitions, and other useful features. Different from Visual Studio, VS Code projects do not need a project file to organize all project files or decide how to process the whole project. A VS Code project just consists of all files contained in a folder, and the developers may choose themselves which tools to use to process all the project files and how to configure them. This feature offers great flexibility when developing projects based entirely on TypeScript/JavaScript, since the developer is not constrained by a specific project template but instead may choose the most adequate JavaScript tools for their projects from the thousands of tools available as open source.
This section explores VS Code basics. More specific VS code features will be analyzed in the...