John Papa is a professional Web Developer and storyteller. He currently leads the Academic Cloud Advocacy teams at Microsoft and formerly worked for Disney.
Today is a pretty darn, amazing, fantastical, uber-awesome-astical-game-changing day for Web developers. Microsoft, known for its great tooling, has entered the tooling story for cross platform developers with Visual Studio Code [http://code.visualstudio.com/]. Microsoft announced the launch of Vis
When playing with VSCode, it may be helpful to start with a project. Grab your own or use Hot Towel to generate. You can install Hot Towel and generate a project quickly using these instructions [https://github.com/johnpapa/generator-hottowel#prerequisites]. Visual Studio Code Series Follow this se
There are editors and IDE’s (Integrated Development Environments). I’ve often been asked which tools I prefer, so I decided to share how I view them. Your mileage may vary on your tool selection, of course. Influencing factors for me: * speed of the tool * speed of typing * features * extensib
You can learn a lot by trying new things. Over the past 18 months I have been switching IDEs and editors every few months going between Atom, Visual Studio, Brackets, WebStorm, and Sublime … and then back again. This has given me an appreciation of the various tools, all of which have their pros. Fo
Streamlining Angular code is sublime. We can streamline the process of optimizing Angular [http://angularjs.org] apps for dependency injections, template caching, and common JavaScript optimizations such as minification, all in preparation for production using build automation tools like Gulp.js [ht
