September 2019
Intermediate to advanced
192 pages
6h 3m
English
The key to being exceptionally productive in any development tool is being intimately familiar with the user interface, for the simple reason that the basic user interface will be the environment in which you spend the vast majority of your editing time. Yes, the quick key bindings are useful to know, as are the customizations and extensions that are available. But to be truly efficient in Visual Studio Code, you need to know the basic elements of the user interface and how they work together.
Figure 2-1 shows Visual Studio Code with a simple React app open.
The basic user interface consists of four main areas, each marked in Figure 2-1 with a different letter: