All language subtitles for 5. Setting Up Our Developer Environment

Once we have not installed, you might want to open up your favorite text editor to start writing some

JavaScript.

You can use whatever you want for this.

The most popular one right now is Visual Studio Code or voice code.

Again, you can use whatever you want for this, but if you don't have this code, you might want to

download it for your system.

Whether that's Mac or Windows or Linux.

Whatever your operating system is, you can download this code here, and once you've downloaded it,

you can open it up.

And start writing our first note file, so first thing, we're going to create a new file and we're

going to save it.

As hello, Jess.

In my case, I already have a file called Hello, so I'll replace it and then the editor area here,

I can start writing some node code and by node code, it's just JavaScript, so I could write a function,

say find meaning.

Just like we do in JavaScript, and I'll return 40 to now if we want to open up our terminal and run

this program.

We can use the terminal in our operating system, but this code allows us to open up a terminal by going

to the terminal option and selecting New Terminal, which gives us a terminal inside of the code.

Now you might prefer to have the terminal separate and not clutter up your screen here too much.

And that's OK.

That's a personal preference.

But now we can run commands like Node, which would run our apple.

But if we pass in the name of the file that we just wrote, Node will run that file for us.

OK, and since our function didn't actually do anything.

It looks like it's working.

So let's just make sure by console that logging.

The result of find meaning.

Awesome.

It looks like things are working now.

One of the great things about vs code is that it supports a lot of different extensions for Node.js.

These are add ons that make our development life a little bit easier.

And one that I like to make sure is installed is the Visual Studio Intel code plugin, which gives us

some additional information.

And auto completion items for when we're writing our code.

So we can install that by pressing install.

And now in our JavaScript files, if we start writing some code.

The topmost element here, the first suggestion is the one that's most likely to be relevant to your

program.

So in this case, I actually want to be calling a function on the object class, say object a sign.

The intel a code plug in makes the auto completion and voice code a little bit more effective.

And you can scroll through these plug ins and select whichever ones you prefer.

Say we're making containers with Docker and we want to install a plug in for that.

We could do that, but that's for later in the course, and it's completely optional.

Again, you can use any I.D. or editor that you prefer.

I just think that vs code is great for the purposes of this course and my recommendation if you don't

already have a strong preference.

It's all up to you which editor you choose.

And at the end of the day, as a developer, you're going to be picking and customizing your environment.

However you like, the most important thing is that you're comfortable with your own environment.

All right, I'll see you in the next one.