Installing VSCode, Node.js, and Git

After finishing this doc you will have VSCode, Node.js, and Git installed on your machine.

VSCode

  1. Vist VSCode to download VSCode.
  2. Launch the installer and follow the onscreen prompts.
  3. When you reach the section for Additional tasks, make sure every box is checked.
  4. Click install and continue to follow and onscreen prompts.

Once you are done, you can open up a terminal (the Ubuntu App) and type code to open VSCode. This may or may not require a restart first.

Node.js - Version 10.x

  1. Open the Ubuntu app and type cd ~ to bring you into the Ubuntu FS.
  2. Type sudo apt-get update. This will tell Ubuntu’s apt tool to update.
  3. After it is done updating run the command:
curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_10.x | sudo -E bash -

then run:

sudo apt-get install -y nodejs

We will also install Node on Windows:

  1. Visit https://nodejs.org/en/download/ and download and run the Windows installer.

Eslint

  1. Search ‘windows powershell’ in the start menu and open it.
  2. Run npm i -g eslint . When finished close windows powershell.

Git

Git is already installed on Ubuntu as it comes built in. VSCode however also uses Git for it’s source-control tool to work. But since VSCode is a Windows application, it doesn’t know how to use Ubuntu’s version of Git.

  1. Visit git-scm.com to download and install Git.

  2. Follow the onscreen instructions.

    • Choose the default values for each prompt…
    • EXCEPT when it asks you to Choose the default editor used by Git…
      • click the drop down and choose the VSCode option
      • Do NOT choose the “VSCode Insiders” option.
    • This will allow you to handle merge conflicts in your editor instead of in your command line which is another reason to have Git on Windows as well.
  3. Continue choosing the default options to finish the installation.

Set the Git Config

The final step here is to add your email and name to the Git config. This will allow you to commit and push things to GitHub. Make sure to include the space after .email and .name, and always remember to close your quotes ‘ ‘ and “ “.

  1. Close and re-open a new Ubuntu terminal
  2. Type git config --global user.email 'your email here in single quotes'.
  3. Type git config --global user.name 'Your Name In Single Quotes'.
  4. Type git config --global core.editor 'code --wait'.

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