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Install and configure Visual Studio Code

Visual Studio Code is an IDE that we use to develop all our applications.

Steps

Visual Studio Code can be installed with the following methods.

You can follow the official documentation depending on your Linux distribution.

For Debian, you can execute the following commands to install Visual Studio Code.

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# Update the available package lists
sudo apt update

# Install required packages to add Visual Studio Code's repository
sudo apt install \
  ca-certificates \
  curl \
  gnupg \
  lsb-release

# Add Docker's official GPG key
sudo mkdir -p /etc/apt/keyrings && curl -fsSL https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /etc/apt/keyrings/packages.microsoft.gpg

# Set up the repository
echo \
"deb [arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture) signed-by=signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/packages.microsoft.gpg] https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/code \
$(lsb_release -cs) stable" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vscode.list > /dev/null

# Update the available package lists
sudo apt update

# Install Visual Studio Code
sudo apt install code

Download and install Visual Studio Code from the official website. You can then start Visual Studio Code and you should be good to go.

Summary

Congrats! You have successfully installed and configured Visual Studio Code!

Versions

At the time of writing this tutorial, the version are as follow (on macOS). Yours might be more recent but it should work nonetheless.

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> code --version
1.74.3
97dec172d3256f8ca4bfb2143f3f76b503ca0534
x64