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Hands-On Serverless Computing
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Hands-On Serverless Computing

by Kuldeep Chowhan
July 2018
Intermediate to advanced
350 pages
8h 47m
English
Packt Publishing
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Node.js tutorial in VS Code

In this section, we will look into how we can write Node.js code in Visual Studio Code. We will also be looking at how to run Node.js code. Visual Studio Code has out-of- the-box support for the Node.js JavaScript language and also has support for Node.js debugging. To demonstrate this, we will create a file, Node.js, which will print Hello Reader!:

Hello Reader!

Let's get started by creating a Node.js file to print Hello Reader!.

Create an empty folder called scratch, navigate into it, and open it with Visual Studio Code:

mkdir scratch
cd scratch
code .
You can open files or folders directly from the command line. The period . refers to the current folder, therefore Visual Studio Code will start and open the
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