Editing text: VS Code

User types

This page is useful for user type 4 and 5.

VS Code is a text editor with some extra features, such as integrated source control and a file browser. Moreover, extensions are available to add functionality to VS Code.

Installation

VS Code can be downloaded from here. The installation is fairly simple and won’t be covered here.

Extensions

When working with Jupyter Book (or Notebooks in general), these extensions are highly recommended:

• User type 4-5:

  • MyST-Markdown - adds support for MyST markdown, including previews.

  • Spell checker - Spelling checker for source code and text

• User type 5

  • YAML - enables validation of .yml files (the format of the Jupyter Book configuration files).

  • Python - for obvious reasons. Also includes Jupyter Notebook rendering.

  • GitHub Copilot - Your AI pair progammer

  • Jupyter Cell Tags - Jupyter Cell Tags support