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VS Code and extensions

VS Code and extensions

Welcome back. For starting our React code journey let's discuss what editor and extensions we are going to need. We will use VS Code for this course. VS Code is Microsoft's developed code editor and is widely used in the developer world. You can easily get help, support, themes and many useful extensions with VS Code on the internet. It's not that you have to use VS Code every time when you are developing in React. You can use other editors of your choice as well. But for this course, we are going to use VS Code since this is most widely used. We are also going to use ESLint, which is a tool which takes care of clean code as soon as you start writing code, you just have to install it using and initialize it. If you are not familiar with ESLint, don't worry, we will use it in this course, but I would recommend to start using ESLint after some of the lectures, so that you can see its need and as a beginner. We will also use Prettier for code formatting. Reactor is an extension which…

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