Choosing the right IDE
Choosing the right IDE may help you do fast development. For Node.js development, especially to follow our code examples, we don’t have strict requirements related to IDE. You can use your favorite text editor or built-in text editor for your OS. Choosing the right IDE is a taste and functionality preference. An IDE helps you in syntax highlighting, autocompletion, and refactoring, and also easily interacts with important libraries. You can use different IDEs, such as Visual Studio Code, Eclipse Che, Sublime Text, WebStorm, and IntelliJ IDEA.
We prefer Visual Studio Code because it is free, easy to use, can be extended using extensions, is cross-platform compatible, easily configurable, and supports multiple programming languages.
Let’s install Visual Studio Code. To install it, just follow these instructions:
- Go to https://code.visualstudio.com/download.
- Click on your OS version and wait for the download to be completed.
- Click...
