Chapter 1.1.4 - Working with code editors

Practically speaking, you can write websites in any text editor. However, there are specialized code editors that help you write clean, formatted, error-free code—sometimes they even write code for you! There are many choices out there, from IDEs (Integrated Development Environments) like WebStorm to universal code editors like Sublime Text, Atom, and Visual Studio Code. Since we want you to pick up a tool that you can use no matter what project you are working on, we will stick to universal code editors. Specifically, we are going to use Visual Studio Code, as its extensions library has thousands of ways to improve and speed up development. We are not going to do a better job describing what Visual Studio Code is than Microsoft themselves, so read more about it on their official website.