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Make stylelint work in Visual Studio Code

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Make stylelint work in Visual Studio Code

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- [Instructor] Stylelint, like most developer tools these days, is a command line tool, meaning to get access to the stylelint configuration I just set up and actually use it on my files, I need to do it in the command line, which is fine if I'm either doing a lot of command line work or if I'm using some sort of task runner like Gulp, or Grunt, or NPM scripts, or something else. However, when you're writing CSS, you really want the editor itself to tell you when you're doing something wrong and help you fix it, and stylelint can do that if we install an extension to VS Code that takes advantage of the stylelint settings. So, first of all, I'll show you that stylelint currently is not working by going to my builds folder, opening development and CSS, and opening the style sheet. As you can see, scrolling through this file, nowhere within the file is an error flag, and that could be because the CSS is perfect and there are no errors, but I highly doubt it. I mean, when I write CSS…

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