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 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 |