
VS Code and the Live Server extension
February 28th, 2020
- Link to VS Code and the Live Server extension podcast on anchorfm
I have always opened my code editors
from the Command Line
and from within
the directory I wanted to open in them using a shell command
. I did it with
Atom
, I did it with Sublime
, with Web Storm
, PHP Storm
, and now I do it
with VS Code
. I do pretty much everything in Command Line
. So when someone
has a problem with VS Code
and uses the code editor outside of the
Command Line
, I have to re-learn how to use VS Code
in a “different
way”. I have to take myself back to when I was learning how to use a tool, and I
wasn’t using the Command Line. It’s like temporarily retraining your mind.
You can’t think instinctively. You have to think deliberately.
Anyhoo, I decided to create a short little screen recording
in which I show
how to use VS Code
first with the Command Line
to open a project in
VS Code
then using Live Server
, then not using the Command Line
, and
then using Live Server
after opening a file
instead of a folder
.
I will be hosting the .movs
on YouTube, and embedding them into the transcript
of this podcast.
I will be embedding this episode of Plugging in The Holes along with a transcript in the form of a post on interglobalmedianetwork.com for your hearing and reading pleasure. I will be including the related resource links mentioned in the podcast of course. Always do. Bye for now!

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