Visual Studio Code is an integrated development environment or IDE for short. It is a text editor empowered with various tooling to make it easier to make, compile and test software. The news website is software. It uses HTML, CSS, JavaScript and Ruby to compile and run the website in a browser.

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There are various great (video) tutorials on the internet that can introduce you to Visual Studio Code. I’ll reference some that I think can be meaningful. For this article we only focus on what we need to communicate to you where to click. See also the following image:

Extensions

Open the Extensions in the Activity Bar. The strength of Visual Studio Code is in its extensions. In general be ware of installing extensions. Extensions run code on your device. This can be to improve your development experience or to do something with usernames and passwords.

With that said, I recommend the following extensions:

• Code Spell Checker: Introduces a basic spell checker.
• Gitlens: Improves the support of Git.
• Liquid: Improves the support of files with Liquid in it, which is common for Jekyll projects.
• Markdown All in One: Improves the support of Markdown files.

References

• Official tutorial of Visual Studio Code
• Official video tutorial of Visual Studio Code