Visual Studio Code installation

The purpose of this section is to guide you to install Visual Studio Code in your development environment. Visual Studio Code is good choice to develop, debug and deploy NativeScript Apps.

Visual Studio Code is a brand new cross-platform IDE from Microsoft.

Visual Studio Code does not rely on predefined project templates to create a project. You can create your own project templates. You can create your own build process. You can debug. You have IntelliSense on JavaScript , it's Typescript oriented by default. In one word it is a great tool!

Install from https://code.visualstudio.com

To execute the downloaded file VSCodeSetup-stable.exe you need administrator privileges on your machine. This may not be the case if you are at work : check this point with your system administrator.

Double-click on the downloaded file VSCodeSetup-stable.exe to start the installation of Visual Studio Code. Do a standard installation by clicking on the next button at each step of the installation wizard. You should select the following options in the Select Additional Tasks step:

  • Add "Open with Code" action to Windows Explorer file context menu.
  • Add "Open with Code" action to Windows Explorer directory context menu.

Once installed, you are ready to create your first Visual Studio Code project.

Here are some nice Visual Studio Code References to start with:

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