From the course: Web Programming Foundations
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Putting it all together
- [Instructor] To put all this together, you need two things, a code editor like Visual Studio Code, and a modern browser like Firefox, running at the same time, often side by side, and often with the browser developer tools open. As you develop your project, you work on the code in both applications, sometimes writing code in the code editor, other times either interacting with the live site in the browser, or manipulating and editing the code directly in the browser developer tools. The out-of-the-box way of doing this is to open up the editor to the project folder, and run the files natively from your computer in the browser. However, this process has some significant limitations. On the surface, you have to manually reload the browser every time you make a change in the editor, and that can be really annoying. But more importantly, running an HTML document from your computer like this, directly in your browser, is not the same as running an HTML document from a web server. You…
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