Task 1 - Install VS Code on your computer
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Task 1 - Install VS Code on your computer#
In the first few weeks of the course, we have been making do with the “web-version” VS Code application on GitHub.com (by pressing the .
key in your repository).
You may have noticed that there are some limitations on the web-version of VS Code.
For example, you could not “Preview” html
documents through the web-version of VS Code, and not all the extensions work.
Now that you’re a bit more familiar and comfortable working in this editor, we can now setup VS Code on our computer.
Here are the instructions to install VS Code on your desktop:
Setup the HTML Preview using VS Code#
Install the “GitHub Repositories” extension.
Authorize your computer with GitHub.
Install the “HTML Preview” extension.
Click the “>< GitHub” icon on the bottom left task bar of VS Code,
then click “Open Remote Repository”,
then click “Open Repository from GitHub”, and then
select the lab from the list that you want to work on
You may need to Authenticate with GitHub, you should use your password
You should then be able to click on the Preview button to see a rendering of the HTML file!