When you start the editor for the first time you will see the welcome screen:
There is a bar on the left, called Activity Bar, with 5 icons.
That gives access to:
- The Explorer
- Search
- Source Control
- Run and Debug
- The Extensions
We’ll explore some of those panels in the other lessons.
But from here you can click around, and for example that “Get Started with VS Code” link is a good starting point:
There’s an onboarding and you can for example pick a new theme:
One important thing this introduces is the command palette, which lists a few useful commands, which you open by pressing the keyboard shortcut cmd/ctrl+shift+p, or from the menu View -> Command palette:
You had a quick glance at the power of VS Code.
Lessons in this unit:
| 0: | Introduction |
| 1: | ▶︎ The interface |
| 2: | Opening folders |
| 3: | Editing |
| 4: | Search |
| 5: | Source control |
| 6: | Extensions |
| 7: | Themes |
| 8: | Recommended extensions |
| 9: | The command palette |
| 10: | Shortcuts |
| 11: | Customization |
| 12: | Terminal |
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