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The importance of a good editor and IDE

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The importance of a good editor and IDE

- [Instructor] The debugging tools we're talking about here are mainly in web browsers, but debugging code also means being able to understand it better and having a text editor or IDE that you like will give you a huge boost. Like all software, this is an area that changes a lot, but let's run through why a good editor is so important. Syntax highlighting is definitely top of my list. Code is instructions for a machine but it's also read by humans, ourselves and our collaborators, and being able to tell what the language keywords are at a glance is really helpful. All editors recommended here let you switch themes so you can get the colors just how you like them too. Looking at this, this is the editor that's just built into macOS. I have this really small JavaScript file here. You can see I've got stuff like spell checking that I don't really care about and I can't really tell what anything is. Contrast that with the same file in Visual Studio Code. I can tell just at a glance what…

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