Announcing New VS Code Tips & Tricks Course!

Announcing Our New Course: VS Code Tips & Tricks!

Visual Studio Code (VS Code) is an easy-to-use code editor that works great for building Flutter apps. It gives you lots of keyboard shortcuts for most commands, but you can also add more to suit your needs.

In our new VS Code Tips & Tricks course, you'll learn how to use these shortcuts to help make your Flutter development easier and faster!

Keep reading to hear more about it from course instructor Emmanuel Okiche:

Why should I take your VS Code Tips & Tricks course?

"Visual Studio Code has become popular as it's a lightweight code editor that's extensible and easily customized. In particular, extensions turn VS Code into a code editing powerhouse, so you'll explore some amazing Flutter extensions to make your life easy.

By the end of this course, you'll go from a basic VS Code user to a VS Code rockstar!"

How does VS Code help with Flutter development?

"VS Code is my preferred code editor because its simple interface makes it super easy to get started.

I used to use Android Studio for Flutter development because of the standard tooling. However, VS Code has improved beyond that for an even better development experience — plus it's really lightweight, which makes it a total win for me.

VS Code is easy to customize for my personal needs, and I don't have to worry about my settings and configs because everything can be synced to the cloud."

Can you please share a cool VS Code tip with us?

"Keyboard shortcuts make editing code faster, and VS Code makes it easy to add or update existing keybindings.

VS Code provides customization in both UI and JSON modes. Adding a simple keybinding is as easy as the code snippet below:

This binds the Ctrl + Shift + / keys to the macros.openSettings command.

Pressing this shortcut triggers the command, which opens the VS Code settings for both the UI and JSON views side-by-side.

macros.openSettings is a custom command made possible through a VS Code extension, which shows how extensible VS Code can be."

Is there anything else we should know about your course on VS Code Tips & Tricks?

"This course isn't limited to Flutter developers! The first section dives into general editing tips that will help make your coding experience faster and more efficient, no matter which platform you develop for."

Emmanuel's VS Code Tips & Tricks course is available for subscribers now!

— Ray