These are my notes, made while watching Deborah Kurta’s Angular2: Getting Started course, hosted by Pluralsight. Most, if not all, of this information can be found within Deborah’s course, however by stripping this information out I hope to jog memories…
Tools & Setup: Macintosh (OS X)
How to use Visual Studio Code with GitHub:
Download and install:
1. Visual Source Code: https://code.visualstudio.com
2. Git: https://git-scm.com/download
Clone a Git:
1. Open a Terminal window and change the directory to the location you would like to save the folders and files, for example:
Mac:~ sion$ cd Documents/GitHub/
Mac:GitHub sion$2. Enter the following command:
Mac:GitHub sion$ git clone https://github.com/DeborahK/Angular2-GettingStarted.gitOnce complete, open the folder with Visual Studio Code.
Commit changes:
1. From Visual Studio Code select Push.
2. If VS Code does not prompt for login and password, open the Terminal in the context of the code:
- Select Explorer.
- Right click on a file in the root of the folder and click Open in Terminal.
- Enter the following command:
Mac:GitHub sion$ git push- Enter the Username and Password for your GitHub account.
- Wait for the command to complete before restarting VS Code.
- VS Code should now be able to Push without errors.
- Optional: install a credential helper https://help.github.com/articles/caching-your-github-password-in-git/
More Information
https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/versioncontrol
https://help.github.com/articles/caching-your-github-password-in-git/
Please see second post in this series for install and configure of the NPM (Node Package Manager) command line utility