Overview of Visual Studio Code

Let us get an overview of another popular IDE which can be used for application development - Visual Studio Code, Popularly known as VS Code.

  • It can support most of the features Pycharm support.

  • However, some of the features will be available only when you install relevant plugins.

  • VS Code is open source and supported by Microsoft.

  • If you want to use VS Code, make sure to get better in the same areas as referred for Pycharm.

    • Creating projects

    • Using terminal

    • Generating boiler plate code

    • Refactoring code

    • Effective use of plugins such as Git for code versioning and interactive development with your fellow team members.