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IntelliSense

- [Instructor] Whether you code completion, code hinting, or IntelliSense, there's no doubt that this feature is one of the best innovations in the Editor space. And, as you'd expect, VS Code really shines here. VS Code IntelliSense supports JavaScript, TypeScript, JSON, HTML, CSS, Less, and SAS, right out of the box. And of course, you can increase that list by installing language service extensions from the Visual Studio marketplace. IntelliSense works automatically as you type. For example, here in my index.html file, when I type a trigger character, such as an open angle bracket in HTML, the IntelliSense pop-up appears. In this case, you can see that the first suggestion is to close whatever the current open tag is at this nesting level. And as I type, you can see that the pop-up narrows the list of applicable items, and I can use the up and down arrows to navigate the possible items. To insert the selected item, I can either type the Tab or the Enter keys. To dismiss the pop-up…

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