- [Instructor] To complete the videos in this course,
you need two applications, a web browser, and a code editor.
You undoubtedly already have a web browser
installed on your machine.
And any major browser, Chrome, Firefox, or Microsoft edge
is fine for this course.
I'll be using Firefox in these videos,
which includes a powerful suite of developer tools.
A number of great code editors are available,
both free apps and paid ones.
Any editor that lets you edit and save plain text is fine
for this course.
So if you have a code editor
you like such as Sublime Text or Adam,
it's fine to use that.
I use Visual Studio Code in these videos,
which is a version of Microsoft Visual Studio created
specifically for web development.
Visual Studio Code is free and has Windows, Mac,
and Linux releases.
The code is available on GitHub
and users can submit issues there as well.
I've also installed one extension in Visual Studio Code
and that's Live Server by Ritwick Day.
This is an HTTP server that you can launch with a single
click and that automatically opens the current HTML document
in your default browser.
This makes testing some of our code in the browser
quick and easy to do.
If you want to learn more about anything I use
or talk about in this course,
I encourage you to explore the library for a deeper dive on
that topic, now let's get started.