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Integrated development environment (IDE)

Most of you already know how to contribute to a repository directly online via Gitlab's Web IDE (Trilogy of git, Part I).

However, Gitlab's Web IDE is rather limited if you want to:

  • work efficiently
  • work with several repositories at the same time
  • work offline
  • make changes to several documents all at once
  • use find/replace features
  • ...

In this course we will learn how to contribute to a common project working on you laptop via Visual Studio Code (VS Code):

  • Available for macOS, Linux, and Windows
  • Open source (free)
  • Easy to contribute using git
  • Powerful tool and widely used