Visual Studio vs Visual Studio Code: Quelles sont les différences ?

Dans ce didacticiel, vous apprendrez : Qu'est-ce que Visual Studio ? Qu'est-ce que Visual Studio Code ? Quelle est la différence entre « Visual Studio » et « Visual Studio Code » ? Lequel choisir entre "Visual Studio" et "Visual Studio Code" ? Visual Studio vs Visual Studio Code - Quelle est la différence entre ces éditeurs de code IDE ?

Visual Studio vs Visual Studio Code - Quelle est la différence entre ces éditeurs de code IDE? Quelle est la différence entre Visual Studio et Visual Studio Code ?

La première fois que j'ai entendu parler de "Visual Studio", j'ai pensé que c'était la même chose que "Visual Studio Code". Je ne sais pas pourquoi Microsoft a décidé de confondre tout le monde avec les noms de ces deux outils de développement. Mais c'est une histoire pour un autre jour.

"Visual Studio" et "Visual Studio Code" ne sont pas la même chose. Visual Studio est un environnement de développement intégré (IDE) et Visual Studio Code est un éditeur de texte enrichi comme Sublime Text et Atom.

Mais la différence entre les outils ne se limite pas à l'IDE et à l'éditeur de texte.

Un IDE est un outil robuste pour écrire, éditer, déboguer et exécuter votre code. Un éditeur de texte vous permet uniquement d'écrire et de modifier votre code. Vous devrez peut-être sortir d'un éditeur de texte pour exécuter votre code ou télécharger des plug-ins pour l'aider à s'exécuter à votre place.

Dans cet article, vous découvrirez les principales différences entre Visual Studio et Visual Studio Code. Mais tout d'abord, nous devons savoir ce qu'est "Visual Studio" et ce qu'est "Visual Studio Code" avant de plonger dans ces différences.

Ce que nous couvrirons

• Qu'est-ce que Visual Studio ?
• Qu'est-ce que Visual Studio Code ?
• Quelle est la différence entre « Visual Studio » et « Visual Studio Code » ?
• Lequel choisir entre "Visual Studio" et "Visual Studio Code" ?
• Conclusion

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Qu'est-ce que Visual Studio ?

Visual Studio a été publié pour la première fois en 1997 par Microsoft. Il s'agit d'un environnement de développement intégré (IDE) pour le développement, l'édition et le débogage de sites Web, d'applications Web et mobiles ainsi que de services cloud.

Comme il s'agit d'un IDE, des utilitaires de programmation tels qu'un débogueur, un compilateur, une intelligence, etc. sont tous intégrés pour vous.

Visual Studio est livré avec une prise en charge intégrée de C# et .NET. Il prend également en charge d'autres langages de programmation tels que C, C++, Python, F#, les langages Web (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) et bien plus encore. La prise en charge de Java a été supprimée dans Visual Studio 2017.

Visual Studio fonctionne sur Windows et Mac. Il a 3 éditions - communautaire, professionnelle et entreprise. La version communautaire est gratuite, tandis que les versions professionnelle et entreprise ne le sont pas.

L'installation est un peu plus robuste sur Windows que sur Mac. Ainsi, sous Windows, vous devrez peut-être télécharger plus de 42 Go en fonction de ce que vous souhaitez faire.

Mais sur Mac, au moment de la rédaction de cet article, vous avez besoin d'environ 6,2 Go d'espace disque.

Qu'est-ce que Visual Studio Code ?

Visual Studio Code (également appelé VS Code) est comme la version mini de Visual Studio. Il s'agit d'un éditeur de texte open source et léger disponible sur Windows, Mac et Linux. Il y a aussi la version Web disponible sur https://vscode.dev/.

VS Code est livré avec une prise en charge intégrée de JavaScript, TypeScript et Node JS, mais vous pouvez l'utiliser pour coder dans le langage de votre choix. Tout ce que vous avez à faire est de télécharger les extensions correspondantes.

Certaines extensions sont créées par Microsoft, mais beaucoup d'autres sont des extensions tierces.

Contrairement à Visual Studio, vous n'avez pas besoin de beaucoup d'espace pour télécharger VS Code. Vous n'aurez peut-être pas besoin de plus de 200 Mo d'espace disque pour le télécharger.

Comme il prend en charge JavaScript, TypeScript et Node JS par défaut, vous obtenez également un débogueur et une intelligence. Mais pour obtenir l'intelligence, un compilateur et des débogueurs pour d'autres langages, vous devez télécharger les extensions appropriées.

Vous savez maintenant que Visual Studio est un IDE et que Visual Studio Code est un éditeur de texte. Résumons donc leurs principales différences ensuite.

Quelle est la différence entre « Visual Studio » et « Visual Studio Code » ?

BASE	VISUAL STUDIO	CODE STUDIO VISUEL
Taper	Visual Studio est un IDE à part entière	VS Code est un éditeur de texte (éditeur de code AKA)
Plateforme	Visual Studio fonctionne sur Windows et Mac	VS Code fonctionne sur Windows, Mac et Linux
Taille	Visual Studio est relativement grand. Vous devrez peut-être télécharger plus de 40 Go sur Windows et plus de 6 Go sur Mac	VS Code ne nécessite pas plus de 200 Mo sur n'importe quelle plate-forme
Soutien	Visual Studio a intégré la prise en charge de C # et .NET, ainsi que de plusieurs langages communs en dehors de Java	VS Code prend en charge JavaScript, Typescript et Node JS prêts à l'emploi. Il prend également en charge d'autres langages de programmation - tant qu'il existe une ou plusieurs extensions pour cela
Tarification	Visual Studio Community Edition est gratuit, mais les éditions professionnelle et entreprise codent respectivement 45 $ et 250 $ par mois.	Le code VS est gratuit. La plupart des extensions sont également gratuites mais il en existe des freemium
Rallonges	Visual Studio n'a pas autant d'extensions que VS Code	VS Code a de nombreuses extensions professionnelles et organisées à des fins diverses

Lequel choisir entre "Visual Studio" et "Visual Studio Code" ?

Il y a eu un débat de longue date pour savoir lequel est le meilleur et lequel choisir entre Visual Studio et Visual Studio Code. Eh bien, cela dépend de ce que vous faites.

Si vous développez exclusivement avec un langage pris en charge par Visual Studio tel que C#, C, C++, Python et autres, Visual Studio ou d'autres IDE pertinents sont probablement la meilleure option pour vous.

Mais même si vous développez dans ces langages mais que vous avez besoin d'une interface React, Vue ou Angular, le code VS pourrait être la meilleure option pour vous.

Si vous travaillez en équipe, ils peuvent vous fournir la version entreprise de Visual Studio ou tout autre IDE en corrélation avec le langage avec lequel vous travaillez. Par exemple, PyCharm pour Python et IntelliJ Idea pour Java.

Si vous utilisez Linux, vous devez choisir Visual Studio Code ou un autre IDE en dehors de Visual Studio. C'est parce que Visual Studio ne fonctionne pas sous Linux.

Si vous êtes le genre de personne qui aime personnaliser votre éditeur à votre goût, optez simplement pour VS Code car il est hautement personnalisable. Vous devriez également probablement choisir VS Code si vous mélangez les technologies.

Conclusion

Cet article vous a montré les différences entre Visual Studio et VS Code, ainsi que ce qu'ils sont tous les deux séparément.

Le débat ne devrait jamais être lequel est meilleur que l'autre, mais lequel est le meilleur pour ce que vous voulez faire ou ce dont vous avez besoin. C'est pourquoi nous avons examiné certains scénarios qui pourraient vous inciter à choisir l'un plutôt que l'autre.

Merci pour la lecture.

Source : https://www.freecodecamp.org

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How to Use Hotwire Rails

Introduction

We are back with another exciting and much-talked-about Rails tutorial on how to use Hotwire with the Rails application. This Hotwire Rails tutorial is an alternate method for building modern web applications that consume a pinch of JavaScript.

Rails 7 Hotwire is the default front-end framework shipped with Rails 7 after it was launched. It is used to represent HTML over the wire in the Rails application. Previously, we used to add a hotwire-rails gem in our gem file and then run rails hotwire: install. However, with the introduction of Rails 7, the gem got deprecated. Now, we use turbo-rails and stimulus rails directly, which work as Hotwire’s SPA-like page accelerator and Hotwire’s modest JavaScript framework.

What is Hotwire?

Hotwire is a package of different frameworks that help to build applications. It simplifies the developer’s work for writing web pages without the need to write JavaScript, and instead sending HTML code over the wire.

Introduction to The Hotwire Framework:

1. Turbo:

It uses simplified techniques to build web applications while decreasing the usage of JavaScript in the application. Turbo offers numerous handling methods for the HTML data sent over the wire and displaying the application’s data without actually loading the entire page. It helps to maintain the simplicity of web applications without destroying the single-page application experience by using the below techniques:

Turbo Frames: Turbo Frames help to load the different sections of our markup without any dependency as it divides the page into different contexts separately called frames and updates these frames individually.
Turbo Drive: Every link doesn’t have to make the entire page reload when clicked. Only the HTML contained within the tag will be displayed.
Turbo Streams: To add real-time features to the application, this technique is used. It helps to bring real-time data to the application using CRUD actions.

2. Stimulus

It represents the JavaScript framework, which is required when JS is a requirement in the application. The interaction with the HTML is possible with the help of a stimulus, as the controllers that help those interactions are written by a stimulus.

3. Strada

Not much information is available about Strada as it has not been officially released yet. However, it works with native applications, and by using HTML bridge attributes, interaction is made possible between web applications and native apps.

Simple diagrammatic representation of Hotwire Stack:

Prerequisites For Hotwire Rails Tutorial

As we are implementing the Ruby on Rails Hotwire tutorial, make sure about the following installations before you can get started.

• Ruby on Rails
• Hotwire gem
• PostgreSQL/SQLite (choose any one database)
• Turbo Rails
• Stimulus.js

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Create a new Rails Project

Find the following commands to create a rails application.

mkdir ~/projects/railshotwire
cd ~/projects/railshotwire
echo "source 'https://rubygems.org'" > Gemfile
echo "gem 'rails', '~> 7.0.0'" >> Gemfile
bundle install  
bundle exec rails new . --force -d=postgresql

Now create some files for the project, up till now no usage of Rails Hotwire can be seen.
Fire the following command in your terminal.

• For creating a default controller for the application

echo "class HomeController < ApplicationController" > app/controllers/home_controller.rb
echo "end" >> app/controllers/home_controller.rb

• For creating another controller for the application

echo "class OtherController < ApplicationController" > app/controllers/other_controller.rb
echo "end" >> app/controllers/home_controller.rb

• For creating routes for the application

echo "Rails.application.routes.draw do" > config/routes.rb
echo '  get "home/index"' >> config/routes.rb
echo '  get "other/index"' >> config/routes.rb
echo '  root to: "home#index"' >> config/routes.rb
echo 'end' >> config/routes.rb

• For creating a default view for the application

mkdir app/views/home
echo '<h1>This is Rails Hotwire homepage</h1>' > app/views/home/index.html.erb
echo '<div><%= link_to "Enter to other page", other_index_path %></div>' >> app/views/home/index.html.erb

• For creating another view for the application

mkdir app/views/other
echo '<h1>This is Another page</h1>' > app/views/other/index.html.erb
echo '<div><%= link_to "Enter to home page", root_path %></div>' >> app/views/other/index.html.erb

• For creating a database and schema.rb file for the application

bin/rails db:create
bin/rails db:migrate

• For checking the application run bin/rails s and open your browser, your running application will have the below view.

Additionally, you can clone the code and browse through the project. Here’s the source code of the repository: Rails 7 Hotwire application

Now, let’s see how Hotwire Rails can work its magic with various Turbo techniques.

Hotwire Rails: Turbo Drive

Go to your localhost:3000 on your web browser and right-click on the Inspect and open a Network tab of the DevTools of the browser.

Now click on go to another page link that appears on the home page to redirect from the home page to another page. In our Network tab, we can see that this action of navigation is achieved via XHR. It appears only the part inside HTML is reloaded, here neither the CSS is reloaded nor the JS is reloaded when the navigation action is performed.

By performing this action we can see that Turbo Drive helps to represent the HTML response without loading the full page and only follows redirect and reindeer HTML responses which helps to make the application faster to access.

Hotwire Rails: Turbo Frame

This technique helps to divide the current page into different sections called frames that can be updated separately independently when new data is added from the server.
Below we discuss the different use cases of Turbo frame like inline edition, sorting, searching, and filtering of data.

Let’s perform some practical actions to see the example of these use cases.

Make changes in the app/controllers/home_controller.rb file

#CODE

class HomeController < ApplicationController
   def turbo_frame_form
   end
   
   def turbo_frame submit
      extracted_anynumber = params[:any][:anynumber]
      render :turbo_frame_form, status: :ok, locals: {anynumber: extracted_anynumber,      comment: 'turbo_frame_submit ok' }
   end
end

Add app/views/home/turbo_frame_form.html.erb file to the application and add this content inside the file.

#CODE

<section>

    <%= turbo_frame_tag 'anyframe' do %>
            
      <div>
          <h2>Frame view</h2>
          <%= form_with scope: :any, url: turbo_frame_submit_path, local: true do |form| %>
              <%= form.label :anynumber, 'Type an integer (odd or even)', 'class' => 'my-0  d-inline'  %>
              <%= form.text_field :anynumber, type: 'number', 'required' => 'true', 'value' => "#{local_assigns[:anynumber] || 0}",  'aria-describedby' => 'anynumber' %>
              <%= form.submit 'Submit this number', 'id' => 'submit-number' %>
          <% end %>
      </div>
      <div>
        <h2>Data of the view</h2>
        <pre style="font-size: .7rem;"><%= JSON.pretty_generate(local_assigns) %></pre> 
      </div>
      
    <% end %>

</section>

Make some adjustments in routes.rb

#CODE

Rails.application.routes.draw do
  get 'home/index'
  get 'other/index'

  get '/home/turbo_frame_form' => 'home#turbo_frame_form', as: 'turbo_frame_form'
  post '/home/turbo_frame_submit' => 'home#turbo_frame_submit', as: 'turbo_frame_submit'


  root to: "home#index"
end

• Next step is to change homepage view in app/views/home/index.html.erb

#CODE

<h1>This is Rails Hotwire home page</h1>
<div><%= link_to "Enter to other page", other_index_path %></div>

<%= turbo_frame_tag 'anyframe' do %>        
  <div>
      <h2>Home view</h2>
      <%= form_with scope: :any, url: turbo_frame_submit_path, local: true do |form| %>
          <%= form.label :anynumber, 'Type an integer (odd or even)', 'class' => 'my-0  d-inline'  %>
          <%= form.text_field :anynumber, type: 'number', 'required' => 'true', 'value' => "#{local_assigns[:anynumber] || 0}",  'aria-describedby' => 'anynumber' %>
          <%= form.submit 'Submit this number', 'id' => 'submit-number' %>
      <% end %>
  <div>
<% end %>

After making all the changes, restart the rails server and refresh the browser, the default view will appear on the browser.

Now in the field enter any digit, after entering the digit click on submit button, and as the submit button is clicked we can see the Turbo Frame in action in the below screen, we can observe that the frame part changed, the first title and first link didn’t move.

Hotwire Rails: Turbo Streams

Turbo Streams deliver page updates over WebSocket, SSE or in response to form submissions by only using HTML and a series of CRUD-like operations, you are free to say that either

• Update the piece of HTML while responding to all the other actions like the post, put, patch, and delete except the GET action.
• Transmit a change to all users, without reloading the browser page.

This transmit can be represented by a simple example.

• Make changes in app/controllers/other_controller.rb file of rails application

#CODE

class OtherController < ApplicationController

  def post_something
    respond_to do |format|
      format.turbo_stream {  }
    end
  end

   end

Add the below line in routes.rb file of the application

#CODE

post '/other/post_something' => 'other#post_something', as: 'post_something'

Superb! Rails will now attempt to locate the app/views/other/post_something.turbo_stream.erb template at any moment the ‘/other/post_something’ endpoint is reached.

For this, we need to add app/views/other/post_something.turbo_stream.erb template in the rails application.

#CODE

<turbo-stream action="append" target="messages">
  <template>
    <div id="message_1">This changes the existing message!</div>
  </template>
</turbo-stream>

This states that the response will try to append the template of the turbo frame with ID “messages”.

Now change the index.html.erb file in app/views/other paths with the below content.

#CODE

<h1>This is Another page</h1>
<div><%= link_to "Enter to home page", root_path %></div>

<div style="margin-top: 3rem;">
  <%= form_with scope: :any, url: post_something_path do |form| %>
      <%= form.submit 'Post any message %>
  <% end %>
  <turbo-frame id="messages">
    <div>An empty message</div>
  </turbo-frame>
</div>

• After making all the changes, restart the rails server and refresh the browser, and go to the other page.

• Once the above screen appears, click on the Post any message button

This action shows that after submitting the response, the Turbo Streams help the developer to append the message, without reloading the page.

Another use case we can test is that rather than appending the message, the developer replaces the message. For that, we need to change the content of app/views/other/post_something.turbo_stream.erb template file and change the value of the action attribute from append to replace and check the changes in the browser.

#CODE

<turbo-stream action="replace" target="messages">
  <template>
    <div id="message_1">This changes the existing message!</div>
  </template>
</turbo-stream>

When we click on Post any message button, the message that appear below that button will get replaced with the message that is mentioned in the app/views/other/post_something.turbo_stream.erb template

Stimulus

There are some cases in an application where JS is needed, therefore to cover those scenarios we require Hotwire JS tool. Hotwire has a JS tool because in some scenarios Turbo-* tools are not sufficient. But as we know that Hotwire is used to reduce the usage of JS in an application, Stimulus considers HTML as the single source of truth. Consider the case where we have to give elements on a page some JavaScript attributes, such as data controller, data-action, and data target. For that, a stimulus controller that can access elements and receive events based on those characteristics will be created.

Make a change in app/views/other/index.html.erb template file in rails application

#CODE

<h1>This is Another page</h1>
<div><%= link_to "Enter to home page", root_path %></div>

<div style="margin-top: 2rem;">
  <%= form_with scope: :any, url: post_something_path do |form| %>
      <%= form.submit 'Post something' %>
  <% end %>
  <turbo-frame id="messages">
    <div>An empty message</div>
  </turbo-frame>
</div>

<div style="margin-top: 2rem;">
  <h2>Stimulus</h2>  
  <div data-controller="hello">
    <input data-hello-target="name" type="text">
    <button data-action="click->hello#greet">
      Greet
    </button>
    <span data-hello-target="output">
    </span>
  </div>
</div>

Make changes in the hello_controller.js in path app/JavaScript/controllers and add a stimulus controller in the file, which helps to bring the HTML into life.

#CODE

import { Controller } from "@hotwired/stimulus"

export default class extends Controller {
  static targets = [ "name", "output" ]

  greet() {
    this.outputTarget.textContent =
      `Hello, ${this.nameTarget.value}!`
  }
}

Go to your browser after making the changes in the code and click on Enter to other page link which will navigate to the localhost:3000/other/index page there you can see the changes implemented by the stimulus controller that is designed to augment your HTML with just enough behavior to make it more responsive.

With just a little bit of work, Turbo and Stimulus together offer a complete answer for applications that are quick and compelling.

Using Rails 7 Hotwire helps to load the pages at a faster speed and allows you to render templates on the server, where you have access to your whole domain model. It is a productive development experience in ROR, without compromising any of the speed or responsiveness associated with SPA.

Conclusion

We hope you were satisfied with our Rails Hotwire tutorial. Write to us at service@bacancy.com for any query that you want to resolve, or if you want us to share a tutorial on your query.

For more such solutions on RoR, check out our Ruby on Rails Tutorials. We will always strive to amaze you and cater to your needs.

Original article source at: https://www.bacancytechnology.com/

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COMO USAR e trabalhar com Code Review no Visual Studio Code

Não é todo programador que gosta de compartilhar o seu trabalho ou até mesmo receber feedbacks de como o seu código foi escrito, mas o Code Review é cada vez mais comum em empresas do mundo todo.

Conheça uma extensão para Visual Studio Code e comece a trabalhar com Code Review em seu próximo projeto. Essa é a sua chance de saber COMO USAR e trabalhar com Code Review no Visual Studio Code.

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Writing Visual Studio Extensions with Mads - Episode 1: Item Templates

Join Mads Kristensen from the Visual Studio team each week as he builds extensions for Visual Studio live!

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2018: When VS Code Eclipsed Visual Studio IDE

I wonder if Microsoft knew what it had on its hands back in 2015 when it created Visual Studio Code, the little code editor that could.

Did the VS Code team even envision the free, open source code editor could, in less than four years after its debut, become the No. 1 development tool in a major development survey, eclipsing its namesake IDE that can cost some $6,000 per year?

That’s what happened, and the success of VS Code – along with the evolution of the open source, cross-platform .NET Core – provides the signature theme of 2018 in the Microsoft developer ecosystem. This was the year Microsoft finally shook off the last vestiges of its perception as a proprietary, monolithic corporate predator, transforming like a chrysalis to emerge as an open source champion.

As unlikely as it would seem, providing a free, performant and versatile code editor was probably a requirement for Microsoft to complete its journey to open source advocate. Leading the charge to .NET Core with a huge (some would say “bloated”), sometimes-costly (there is a free edition) enterprisey IDE that just runs on Windows (yes, there is a Mac version, but it’s problematic) just doesn’t work.

VS Code, though, fits the bill.

That was confirmed this year when Stack Overflow – known for its huge programming Q&A site – released its comprehensive developer survey, which polled more than 100,000 developers in 183 countries.

No. 1 on Stack Overflow **(source: Stack Overflow).**

“Visual Studio Code just edged out Visual Studio as the most popular developer environment tool across the board,” said Stack Overflow, which divided that “board” into four planks: All Respondents, Web Developers, Mobile Developers and Sysadmin/DevOps.

VS Code was No. 1 in the first two categories and No. 2 in the last two, finishing behind Android Studio in Mobile and Vim for Sysadmin/DevOps. In the previous year’s SO survey, VS Code placed no higher than fifth place among all segments.

While it only beat out Visual Studio IDE by .6 percentage points in the SO survey, its ascension was foreshadowed some six months earlier in yet another huge developer survey conducted by yet another huge developer platform.

This time, GitHub in its “State of the Octoverse” report saw VS Code repeat as the No. 1 open source project when measured by contributor count, which clocked in at about 15,000.

The 2018 GitHub report showed VS Code repeat in popularity (now up to some 19,000 contributors) and also – probably not coincidentally – noted that Microsoft was the organization with the most employees contributing to open source, with 7,700 contributors, well ahead of No. 2 Google at 5,500 contributors.

Editor Usage Rates **(source: Triplebyte).**

And much newer research has further confirmed VS Code is on the rise, as technical recruiting specialist Triplebyte just recently noticed a huge upsurge in the code editor’s use among its developer job candidates conducting rigorous interviews.

“Visual Studio Code is on the rise,” Triplebyte said. “Over the past year, it has become the most popular editor across the board, and it’s gaining ground every month.”

While VS Code’s popularity is well-known and well-charted elsewhere, this Triplebyte research certainly provided insight into the rapid hike in popularity.

For example, in discussing the above graphic, the firm said, “The first thing that jumps out from this graph is the prominence of Visual Studio Code. With 17 percent of the pie, VS Code was the editor used by the plurality of Triplebyte candidates last year. This was a surprise to me for two reasons. First, VS Code is a relatively new product from Microsoft, and, second, last year it didn’t even appear on our charts – its share was small enough to fall into the ‘other’ bucket.”

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Visual Studio Code VS Sublime for JavaScript & Frontend Development

Node or PHP?

Headless or traditional CMS?

React or Vue?

VS Code or Sublime?

Different projects require different tools. Developers must pick the right ones, which is no small task in this fast-paced environment.

And your first pick—choosing a code editor—is crucial.

In this post, I want to explore two of them, Visual Studio Code and Sublime Text, and help you make that decision.

Why these two, you ask? Because:

1. They’re two of the most popular code editors right now.
2. They’re the ones our team has used the most.

I’ll present both of them, and compare their advantages & limitations.

I’ll then dedicate a full section to JavaScript development on VS Code. Frontend developers, you might want to stick around for that last one!

What is Visual Studio Code?

VS Code was released in 2015 by Microsoft. It’s cross-platform, open-source, and completely free.

Don’t let its young age fool you though: it grew crazy fast and already has a broad extensions & plugins community.

It’s the code editor that our development team uses the most for day-to-day tasks. But I promise to stay impartial. ;)

When asking why devs choose VS Code as their primary editor, the same characteristics often come up: lean, customizable, light & fast.

Some key features also helped make it so popular. First, its super smart IntelliSense provides the best autocomplete discovery for a bunch of languages.

Its support for debugging (mainly for Node.js & JavaScript, which I’ll come back to later) also eases a lot of pains developers might experience otherwise.

If you haven’t heard, .NET is a big part of our development stack at Snipcart. And even though the old Visual Studio might still be better for older .NET solutions, VS Code is an excellent match for .NET Core.

Without spoiling too much of the end of this post, VS Code is also a very viable match for JavaScript & frontend development…

All in all, Visual Studio Code is a great tool. Our team recommends it to any developers who like to fine-tune their code environment.

Its large library of extensions can be found here, in the Visual Studio Marketplace.

What is Sublime Text

Sublime is a more mature code editor, already over a decade old. It was released in 2007 by Jon Skinner, a former Google engineer. It presents itself as a a sophisticated text editor for code, markup and prose.

Also cross-platform, Sublime isn’t free, at a price of 80$/license.

Much like VS Code, Sublime gets lots of praises when it comes to performance and customization.

Some say it’s the fastest text editor for writing code. Not only in general performance but also to run fast searches across any number of files. It reaches this level of performance by being very, very lightweight.

Overall, Sublime is a great jack-of-all-trades platform that is sure to please any developer with its speed and stability.

All of its extensions are listed here, in Package Control.

Visual Studio Code Vs. Sublime Text

General comparison

It’s hard to pinpoint a clear winner in this comparison.

These are both very reliable tools. You probably won’t regret your choice no matter which one you go with. Once again, this post was created to guide you through that decision.

Editor performance

On a pure speed level, Sublime is hard to beat. The main issue with VS Code when it comes to performance is that it’s based on the Electron framework which uses an instance of Chromium. This makes the app slower at launch.

This is an issue only if you really care about these few seconds of startup load time. It looks like most developers can live with it, as VS Code is fast enough the rest of the time.

Also, Sublime’s performance seems to get way more impacted by bigger projects. On the other hand, VS Code scales well in that regard.

If you’re used to working with Atom though, both will feel like a significant improvement for performance!

Sublime, however, takes the win when it comes to performing quick searches. When you open a project, it automatically runs a “symbol analysis,” spotting keywords in your code. With a simple command, you can easily find class names and methods within your files. You’ll be able to do the same in VS Code, but only with a few languages supported out-of-the-box.

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