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  • VS Code Can Do That Workshop
  • Essential Keyboard Shortcuts
  • Exercise 1 - Customizing The Editor
    • Customizing The Editor
    • Switch themes
    • Install a new icon theme
    • Switch fonts
    • Editor tweaks
    • Change default Settings view
    • Easily identify editor instances
  • Exercise 2 - Productivity Tricks
    • Productivity Tricks
    • Essential navigation shortcuts
    • Creating HTML with Emmet
    • Styling with Emmet
    • Update image sizes
  • Exercise 3 - Navigation And Refactoring
    • Navigation And Refactoring
    • Moving, Duplicating and Deleting
    • Folding sections
    • Multiple cursors
    • Rename refactor
    • Finding things
    • Extract refactor
  • Exercise 4 - Debugging
    • Debugging
    • Simple debugging
    • Simple launch config
    • Auto attach
    • Debugging browser apps
    • Compound debug configurations
  • Exercise 5 - Docker
    • Docker
    • Dockerizing an application
    • Running and inspecting images
    • Docker compose
    • Debugging Docker containers
  • Exercise 6 - Remote Development
    • Remote Development
    • Create a remote container
    • Create a new function in the container
    • Handling extensions
  • Exercise 7 - Working With Data
    • Working with data
    • Working with MongoDB
    • Working with SQLite
    • Working with MySQL
  • Exercise 8 - Git and Source Control
    • Git and source control
    • Cloning repos with VS Code
    • Common Git workflows
    • Branching and merge conflicts
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Prerequisites

These are important. You need to have these items installed to complete this workshop:

  • Git

  • Node(LTS)

  • Docker Community Edition

  • VS Code Can Do That extension pack

Exercises

Clone the Github repo...

git clone https://github.com/burkeholland/workshop-vs-code-can-do-that

In the cloned repo there is a folder for each section of the workshop. To begin an exercise, open it in VS Code.

cd exercise-1-customizing-the-editor
code .

Note that the "code" command from your command prompt or terminal only works if VS Code is added to your path. You will be prompted to do this when VS Code is installed. If you need to do it later, you can open the Command Palette (Cmd/Ctrl + Shift + P) and select "Shell Command: Install 'code' command in path".

If you are on Windows, you may need to reboot after this.

Some of the exercises contain multiple workspaces. This allows you to load multiple projects at the same time into VS Code. If this is the case, VS Code will prompt you. Select "Yes" to open the workspace file.

There will be a "start" project and a "solution" project in the workspace. Work in the "start" project and refer to the "solution" project for the finished exercise should you get stuck.

All projects can be run and viewed in the browser by executing the npm start command. Open a terminal instance in VS Code with Cmd/Ctrl + `. Make sure that you are in the right project ("start" or "solution") and run npm start

This should start a server on port 3000 and open a browser tab. Any changes you make will automatically be reflected in the browser.

If the server starts on a different port, such as 3001 or 3002, this is because another process is currently running on port 3000. This is ok, but you may get confused during the exercises. It's a better idea to find the running process and kill it.

  • Mac/Linux:

    • lsof -i tcp:3000

    • Find the ID of the process

    • kill <process id>

  • Windows

    • netstat -ano | findstr :3000

    • Find the ID of the process

    • taskkill /PID typeyourPIDhere /F

Note that for Windows, you must be running the Command Prompt as an Administrator.