From the course: JavaScript: Web Form Programming

Getting set up

From the course: JavaScript: Web Form Programming

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Getting set up

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- [Instructor] Before we start the course, let's make sure that we have our development environment set up. Now you can use any text editor you want for this course. I'm going to use Visual Studio Code and it's a free editor from Microsoft and runs on all the major operating systems. You can download it from code.visualstudio.com. I'm going to use it because it's a great editor and has an extensive collection of third party extensions available, a few of which I'm going to use to make life a little easier. But again, if you already have a favorite editor like Sublime Text or Atom or whatever else, that's fine. If you're going to use VS Code, I suggest installing the live server extension from the VS Code marketplace. So, after you've got Visual Studio Code downloaded and installed from the website, go ahead and launch it. And then let's click on the extensions icon, which is this little icon here in the nav bar. And that will take us to the extensions pane. And I'm going to search on the term Live Server. And it should be the first result, it's pretty, fairly popular. You can see that as of this recording, it's got over 6 million downloads. This extension makes it really easy to run a local web server that automatically reflects our saved changes to the source code in the browser. So, you can see that I've already got it installed. And if you're going to use VS Code, I suggest you install it as well because I'll be using it in the course. Again, it's not needed. You can just put the sample files on your own web server if you have one. You can run them locally from your machine if you rather do that. But just to make things easier, I'm going to be using this Live Server. Also, you'll need to put the exercise files in a place where you can easily access them. So, let's just quickly take a look at those and we'll go ahead and open up one of the folders. And you can see that in my exercise files, I've got both start and finished versions of each example. So you can see that each example has an underscore start and an underscore finished version. So you can see what the finished example is supposed to look like and compare it to your own as you work through the course. So, that's pretty much about it. Once you have your text editor of choice, ready to go, and the exercise files where you want them, then you're ready to begin.

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