History Hack Pack

This "extension pack" will install several tools that may be helpful to you in HIS393: Digital History at the University of Toronto. The MIT license above applies only to this extension pack; individual extensions are governed by their own licenses.

• The Live share extension allows you to edit collaboratively with someone else. This is quite new, we'll see if we can make use of it in class.

• Live Server Preview shows you what your code will look like once it's on a webserver and being observed in a browser

• Beautify makes it easier to prettify your code

• github Pull Requests integrates VSCode with Github. The interface is becoming increasingly powerful.

• Mocha Test Explorer runs tests from inside VSCode. It replaces the often-buggy Mocha Sidebar. Experimental for now, hopefully it works!

• NPM allows yo uto run node and npm commands right from the editor without opening a terminal.

• Markdown Shortcuts adds some hints for markdown syntax.

• ESLint gives fnatastic hints about how to improve your JavaScript code.

• HTML Hint helps you to write better HTML

• Org-mode enables syntax highlighting for some of the README files in our repositories.

• Quokka is a powerful tool that does some evaluation of javascript from inside your editor. For instance, you can use it to check the value of a variable:

  function returnArray (first, second, third) {
    // you can define the array using "new Array ()" or just "[ , , ]"
    // don't forget to return it
    // return ; // add the falue here!
  }
  
  let a = returnArray (1, 3,5);
  a

  Quokka will show the value of a in your Vscode editor window, like this: Check the Quokka docs for more info Have Fun!