Visual Studio Code
“Visual Studio Code (VS Code) is a versatile code editor used for writing, editing, and developing text-based documents and programs. It is recommended for collaborative code-first data and technology projects at IPA.”
How to Install VS Code?
To install VS Code, download and install the latest software version from the Visual Studio Code website or run the following from the command line if you have the Windows Package Manager, winget, installed:
winget install Microsoft.VisualStudioCodebrew install --cask visual-studio-codesudo snap install code --classicUsing VS Code
The best starting point for familiarizing yourself with VS Code is the documentation.
Some particularly helpful references in the documentation are:
Recommended Extensions
The core software and functionality in VS Code gives you a lot of useful tools for writing, editing, and collaborating. Additionally, you can add functionality through Extensions.
Some helpful extensions are the following:
- Python Extension - language syntax for Python programming
- Ruff - Python linting and code formatting
- R Extension - Interacting with R from VS Code
- GitHub Pull Requests - review and manage GitHub pull requests and issues in Visual Studio Code
- Jupyter Extension - for developing with jupyter notebooks
- Just - support for Justfiles
- Quarto Extension - support for writing and building Quarto projects
- Markdown All in One - support for Markdown
- Markdown Preview Mermaid Support - support for Mermaid diagrams in Markdown
- Conventional Commits - support for writing easy to understand commit messages