Setting up the Coding Environment in Javascript - A Beginner's Guide

Now that you know how powerful and versatile JavaScript is, let’s start our journey to start learning JavaScript. 

There are a couple of things that you need to know before you get your hands dirty on writing JavaScript code. You need to know where you should be writing your JavaScript code. 

Where to write JavaScript code

In this module, we will be using a text editor for writing all the code so that it is easy to save the code and refer to it later. Can you guess what a text editor is? As the name suggests, a text editor is something that lets you edit text. The way Microsoft Word can be used for writing and saving documents written in the English language, in a similar manner, a text editor can be used to write, edit and save a programming language. 

There are a plethora of text-editors available, from the very basic Notepad to quite versatile and powerful text editors such as Sublime Text or Visual Studio Code.

We along with an army of developers at UpGrad, prefer using Visual Studio Code as our preferred text editor, and we will be using it in this session too.

Click on the link below to download Visual Studio Code and then install it.

• Visual Studio Code

Please remember to download the setup according to your operating system.

We hope that you’ve downloaded and installed VSCode by now, and if you’ve successfully done so, you must be getting a screen similar to this when you open it.

Congratulations for you’ve successfully set up your text editor. In the next segment, you’ll learn how and where to write JavaScript code in this text editor.