VS Code combines impressive Java support with first-class support for JavaScript and other stacks, making a compelling alternative to traditional IDEs. Let’s try it with Spring and Svelte.

Overall, Visual Studio Code is very good as a Java IDE if you install the Extension Pack for Java. It’s merely OK as a Java editor without the extension pack, as becomes obvious when you run ...

However, in order to compile and run your processing project from Visual Studio Code, you will need to do three things: Set up your .vscode/tasks.json file. (See: "Command: Create Task File") Add ...

At this point, code-server will always be running, even if the system reboots. And that’s how you can serve up an instance of Visual Studio Code over your network. It’s a bit of a franken ...

After running/debugging the test cases, the state of the related test items will be updated in both editor decoration and test explorer. You can trigger the command Test: Peek Output to peek the ...

Microsoft's Visual Studio Code dev teams for Java and Python announced Gradle enhancements for the former and improved Python discovery for the latter. The company updates its associated extensions on ...

The Java Extension Pack does all that via a bunch of extensions ranging from Red Hat's language support to Java Test Runner to Visual Studio's AI-assisted IntelliCode, along with several others.

In the regular monthly (June 2022) update to Java on Visual Studio Code, the dev team announced enhanced Spring Boot functionality as part of a major "Spring Boot End-to-end Improvement" push ...

The Visual Studio Code team continues to add Java functionality to Microsoft's open source, cross-platform code editor via extensions, just launching a new batch for working with Maven, Tomcat and ...