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Environment setup

Environment setup - JavaScript Tutorial

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Environment setup

- To complete the videos in this course, you need four applications. A web browser, a code editor, a JavaScript transpiler and an http server. You undoubtedly already have a web browser installed on your machine, and any major browser, Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Edge, or even Safari, is fine for this course. I'll be using Chrome in these videos, which is a popular choice among web developers because of the extensive and powerful developer tools that it has built in. Note that if you are on a Mac and you want to use Safari, you need to go into the Advanced tab of the Preferences and check the Show Develop menu in the Menu bar box in order to be able to use developer tools. A number of great code editors are available, both free and paid apps. Any editor that lets you edit and save plain text is fine for this course. So if you have a code editor you like, such as Sublime Text or Atom, it's fine to use it. I use Visual Studio Code in these videos, which is a version of Microsoft's Visual…

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