From the course: Create Your Own Data Blog with Quarto and Python

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Setting up Quarto in VS Code

Setting up Quarto in VS Code

- [Instructor] To give you the most flexibility and fun in building your data blog with Quarto, I strongly recommend that you use VS Code or Visual Studio for building and working with your data blog using Quarto. It has lots of useful tools that we'll make use of, but these do require that you use the Quarto extension. Now, if you're following along in the code space, I've set up the dev container, so it already has this extension installed, but on your local machine, you won't have it installed. So this is what it would look like on your machine if you were to go and get the O2, O2 B branch off the GitHub repository. When we look at the files list, we can see there's a Quarto document here with the extension .qmd. When we open up this file, we don't get any syntax highlighting because Quarto hasn't been installed as an extension. Let's do that by clicking into the extensions menu. We'll search for Quarto. This is the…

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