you NEED to use VS Code RIGHT NOW!!

About this video

The creator argues everyone in IT should use VS Code to write code, manage servers, and do cloud and hacking work, and walks through how he uses it. He notes pressing the period key in a GitHub repository opens VS Code in the browser, but recommends installing the desktop app from code.visualstudio.com. During a sponsor segment he creates a Linode server from the marketplace VS Code image to run a cloud VS Code server accessible from anywhere, including a phone. Back locally he opens a folder as a project, creates a Python file, and shows syntax coloring, bracket highlighting, linting squiggles for a typo like ‘prints’, and IntelliSense autocomplete. He installs the Microsoft Python extension, selects a Python interpreter (installing Python from the Windows Store when missing), runs code with the play button, and uses the integrated terminal, including splitting it into two terminals. He covers Explorer open editors, outline, timeline, and search across files or within a file with find/replace. His favorite feature is the Remote - SSH extension: he adds a cloud host, connects in a new window, browses and edits the remote Linux filesystem, uses its terminal, and installs extensions such as Python separately on the remote host. He also previews images and plays video from the remote server inside VS Code, installs the Docker extension to view, inspect, stop, restart and shell into containers and open their ports in a browser, and mentions Azure and AWS extensions for managing cloud resources without leaving the editor.

Key takeaways

• Open a folder as a project; syntax coloring, linting and IntelliSense catch errors and autocomplete code as you type
• Extensions are per-environment: install Python and other extensions locally and again on each remote SSH host
• The integrated terminal can be split and is where code runs inside VS Code
• Remote - SSH turns VS Code into a full editor and terminal for a remote Linux server’s filesystem
• Docker, Azure and AWS extensions let you inspect and manage containers and cloud resources from the same window

Episode details: published December 23, 2022 · 12:48 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are NetworkChuck’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.

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