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Setting Up Your Development Environment

12 minutes

Setting Up Your Development Environment

In this lesson, we'll set up everything you need to start coding.

Required Tools

  • VS Code - Our code editor of choice

  • Chrome - For testing and debugging

  • Git - Version control system

    • Installation Steps

    Installing VS Code

  • Go to code.visualstudio.com

  • Download the installer for your OS

  • Run the installer

    • Recommended Extensions

  • Live Server - For local development

  • Prettier - Code formatting

  • ESLint - JavaScript linting

    • Verifying Your Setup

    Create a simple index.html file and open it with Live Server to verify everything works!

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