Iād suggest instead of Atom using Visual Studio Code instead, which will do most of what you want out of the box and has a much larger extension ecosystem for doing more. FCCās editor component is Monaco, and thatās what VSCode is based on.
Iām speaking about the Atom editor: which plugin for Atom do I need to install to configure Atom (the text editor) to work the same way as the freeCodeCamp editor?
@sergio.am.spina Donāt listen to the cool kids, Iāve been working with Atom forever and itās perfectly fine (especially if youāre just starting out). Iām sure that VS Code is great, but I am a creature of habit and I like my Atom.
add a project folder (āfileā ā āadd project folderā) with your current project (there should be an index.html in there)
click on āpackagesā ā āatom-live-serverā ā start server
It will automatically open your default browser. To access the developer tools/console, hit āf12ā (in Chrome or Firefox", youād have to research if you use a different browser). Now if you console.log something in your script, or you have any errors, it will appear there in the console.
Atom is fine. Itās just not my recommendation. Itās fine to listen to a recommendation and make a different choice.
Last year my recommendation would have been āJust use notepad. You donāt need anything newer or better that the cool kids recommend just because itās newer and more fully featured.ā
It is a really bizarre level of micromanagement to have a boss dictate development tools to this degree.
As for VS Code, yeah Iāll probably kick Atom out of the door as soon as I try VS Code the first time. I just couldnāt be bothered yet (lack of necessity).