Developing Multi-Platform Apps with Visual Studio Code

Table of Contents

Preface

Section 1: Introduction to Visual Studio Code

Chapter 1: Getting Started with Visual Studio Code

Discussing editors and IDEs

Discussing basic features of VS Code

Files and folders6

Workspace6

IntelliSense8

Tasks8

Debugging9

Version control11

Keyboard shortcuts13

Setting up VS Code

Launching VS Code

Setting up the command line for macOS14

Status Bar18

Quick Links18

Panel18

Integrated terminal19

Split Editor20

Command palette20

Themes22

Basic editing in VS Code

Generating HTML23

Multi-cursor editing24

Code refactoring26

Snippets30

Editing and code navigation in VS Code

Go to symbol33

Using commands for navigation34

Navigating between files34

Commenting code35

Summary

Chapter 2: Extensions in Visual Studio Code

Managing ...