Introduction
Visual Studio Code (VSCode) is a lightweight open-source editor, which is free for private and commercial use. Technically, VSCode is built on the framework Electron. Electron is known as a toolset to deploy Node.js applications that are running on the Blink layout engine. The underlying editor is the Monaco Editor. Like the PowerShell ISE, it also has IntelliSense capabilities, which are even available for many more languages. You can easily extend VSCode with the installation of additional extensions. These extensions bring code language and markup language capabilities. But extensions can leverage VSCode even more, which we will see in later chapters. In addition, it comes with an integration of Git and some good debugging ...
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