Youll need to open a new terminal (command prompt) for the node and npm command-line tools to be on your PATH.

See Installing Node.js via package manager to find the Node.js package and installation instructions tailored to your version of Linux.

The period. refers to the current folder, therefore VS Code will start and open the Hello folder.

Refer to the VS Code JavaScript language topic to learn more about JavaScript support.

IntelliSense on the console object was automatically presented to you.

If you type msg. youll see IntelliSense showing all of the string functions available on msg.

You can run Node.js directly from there and avoid switching out of VS Code while running command-line tools.

Your breakpoint will be hit and you can view and step through the simple application.

Notice that VS Code displays a different colored Status Bar to indicate it is in Debug mode and the DEBUG CONSOLE is displayed.

You can delete the Hello folder if you wish as it is not required for the rest of the walkthrough.

The Express Generator is shipped as an npm module and installed by using the npm command-line tool npm.

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The --view pug parameters tell the generator to use the pug template engine.

The generated Express application has a package.json file which includes a start script to run node.binwww.

This will start the Node.js application running.

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Visual Studio Code will make you more productive in developing these types of applications by providing great code editing and navigation experiences.

Type declaration files are written in TypeScript so they can express the data types of parameters and functions, allowing VS Code to provide a rich IntelliSense experience.

Thanks to a feature called Automatic Type Acquisition, you do not have to worry about downloading these type declaration files, VS Code will install them automatically for you.

For example, in app.js we require the.routesindex module, which exports an Express.Router class.

If you bring up IntelliSense on index, you can see the shape of the Router class.

Click on the Run icon in the Activity Bar and then the Configure gear icon at the top of the Run view to create a default launch.json file.

Select the Node.js environment by ensuring that the type property in configurations is set to node.

When the file is first created, VS Code will look in package.json for a start script and will use that value as the program (which in this case is workspaceFolderbinwww ) for the Launch Program configuration.

VS Code will start the server in a new terminal and hit the breakpoint we set.

From there you can inspect variables, create watches, and step through your code.

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