Preparing your text editor

You can use many text editors to write JavaScript. The default one that everyone use nowadays is Visual Studio Code (VS Code).

I highly recommend you use VS Code as well because easier to set up VS Code compared to other text editors.

What you need to install

I recommend you install the following extensions:

1. Standard
2. Prettier Standard

Please follow the instructions in this article to set up these extensions. This version is more up to date compared to the videos I prepared for you below.

I also explain why we set these up in the article above.

And, I apologize if this article is a little confusing. To set up a linter nowadays you need to use Node as well, which makes things slightly more complex.

VS Code Videos

I’ve created a video series to help you get started with Visual Studio Code.

You can watch this series through the following links:

1. Part 1: Setting up VS Code
2. Part 2: Preparing VS Code to code HTML, CSS and JavaScript
3. Part 3: Useful VS Code extensions (optional)
4. Part 4: Useful VS Code keyboard shortcuts (optional)

Please note that this series has been created a while ago and some of the extensions may be dated now.

I intend to create a free course to guide you through the process of setting up VS Code properly for Web Development, but this project has been on the backburner for a while.