From the course: Master Next.js: Elaborate Hands-On Web Development, React Basics, Advanced Next.js, and Deployment
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What is a text editor and how to get VSC?
From the course: Master Next.js: Elaborate Hands-On Web Development, React Basics, Advanced Next.js, and Deployment
What is a text editor and how to get VSC?
In order to continue into the following sections, you need to have a text editor. You don't know what a text editor is. It's a program for typing in text that's streamlined and designed specifically for programming. As you can see here, they're using React. Here's an example of Visual Studio Code, and you can go to code.visualstudio.com. This is a free text editor that I recommend using, developed by Microsoft, and you have IntelliSense in libraries and extensions that helps to format your code, make it look better, make it feel better. Let me get rid of that, sorry. You can even have your terminal at the bottom if you want, make it look prettier. So picture it like Pages or Microsoft Word, but for programming. So in order to continue, please download it. You can select Windows, Linux, Mac. And once it's downloaded, you should be able to open it on your computer. And when you open it, you're going to see this. You're going to see that you can create a new file, which is what we're…
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