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The VS Code interface

Let's go over the VS Code interface. In the following screenshot, you can see five distinctive sections:

Section 1 of VS Code has six icons (more will appear after installing certain plugins). The last one at the bottom of the toolbar, which is a gear symbol, represents the settings. All the others represent different modes, from top to bottom:

1. Explorer mode, which allows us to look for the files that are open in the given workspace
2. Search mode, which allows us to look for a particular text element throughout the whole workplace

3. A built-in Git client (more on that in Chapter 3, Functions)
4. Debugger mode, which halts ...