Articles Tagged vs code

When I open my local project for this very site, there is a 100% chance that I need to run this command before anything else: gulp. I set that up fresh less than a year ago so I’m on the latest-and-greatest stuff and have my workflow just how I like it. I did a few more tweaks a few months later to make things a smidge nicer (even adding a fancy fun little dock icon!).

That’s when I learned … Read article “Run Gulp as You Open a VS Code Project”

Sarcasm disclaimer: This article is mostly sarcasm. I do not think that I actually speak for Dylan Thomas and I would never encourage you to foist a light theme on people who don’t want it. No matter how wrong they may be.

When Dylan Thomas penned the words, “Do not go gentle into that good night,” he was talking about death. But if he were alive today, he might be talking about Linux containers. There is no way to … Read article “A Gentle Introduction to Using a Docker Container as a Dev Environment”

I did a little thing the other day that I didn’t know was possible until then. I had a project folder open in VS Code like I always do, and I added another different root folder to the window. I always assumed when you had a project open, it was one top level root folder and that’s it, if you needed another folder elsewhere open, you would open that in another window. But nope!

We kind of have a “duo … Read article “Some Little Improvements to My VS Code Workflow (Workspaces, Icons, Tasks)”

Git is command-line-driven software, but that doesn’t mean you have to use the command line to make it work. There are lots of options! Some of the deepest programmer nerds I know prefer to use GUIs for Git (Graphic
User Interface, or you know, software you can see things and click stuff), and some near pure-designers I know prefer working with the command line for Git. Swear to Git.

Lemme round up what look like the major players for … Read article “Graphical User Interfaces for Git”

Aww, what a cute blog post title, right?

Prettier is an “opinionated code formatter.” I highly suggest using it. They have a document going deeper into the reasons, but their three marketing bullet points say it best:

• You press save and code is formatted
• No need to discuss style in code review
• Saves you time and energy

But Prettier doesn’t do all languages. Notably HTML. … Read article “Prettier & Beautify”

VS Code is slowly closing the gap between a text editor and an integrated development environment (IDE). At the core of this extremely versatile and flexible tool lies a wonderful API that provides an extensible plugin model that is relatively easy for JavaScript developers to build on. With my first extension, VS Code All Autocomplete, reaching 25K downloads, I wanted to share what I learned from the development and maintenance of it with all of you.… Read article “What I Learned by Building My Own VS Code Extension”

I am a VS Code extension snob. I like to hunt down the most obscure extensions for VS Code — the ones that nobody knows about — and impress people at parties with my knowledge of finely aged and little-known VS Code capabilities… then watch as they look around desperately for someone else to talk to. It’s like the “Sideways” of VS Code.… Read article “VS Code extensions for the discerning developer palate”

I’m sure a lot of you are like me and have switched code editors a number of times. I think my first major editor was Coda. Then I moved to TextMate when I started working primarily on local. Then Sublime Text. And, most recently, VS Code. I bet your journey was different. I know lots of folks that quite love Atom, Brackets, WebStorm, and even BBedit. You do you!

For me, that’s four … Read article “On Switching Code Editors”

Vue is so hot right now and I’ve been thinking of doing a serious project with it since quite a while, so when the opportunity popped up, I hopped in. But there was a little problem — one of the requirements of the project was to write it in TypeScript. At first, I was super stressed about how I was going to ever get started on this combo, but vue-cli made it so easy.

I’d be lying if I said … Read article “Vue + TypeScript: A Match Made in Your Code Editor”