Make VS Code Awesome

What it does

VS Code is noisy. It's loaded with distracting wiz-bangs and doo-dads. "Make VS Code Awesome" is a course I wrote dedicated to bringing focus and speed to the development experience.

Make VS Code beautiful. Be productive as hell in it.

Its integrated terminal, global search, and extension marketplace are fantastic. But here's my beef: It's loaded with distractions and takes a ton of configuration to feel good. We're going to make VS Code awesome, then teach you how to be insanely productive in it. This is not about everything VS Code CAN do, that's what the docs are for. Instead of showing you everything VS Code is capable of , we'll zoom in on the things that matter to a working developer. Hi, I'm Caleb. I'm a full-time open source developer (creator of Alpine and Livewire ). I've been using VS Code for years. Over time, I've tinkered and tweaked my workflow to be fast, efficient, and beautiful. I get tons of questions…from makevscodeawesome.com

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