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VSCode Secret Hidden Feature

Did you know that VSCode has a secret hidden developer console built in! The reason for this is that VS Code is built with Electron.

Electron uses web technologies like javascript, html and css to build an application. Under the hood it’s using chromium. Chromium is the open source part of googles chromes browser. Electron allows you to build cross platform applications. That’s why you can use VSCode on mac, windows, in the browser and much more.

Now you have the option to test out a snippet of JS in VSCode or Chrome dev tools.

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Did you know that VSCode has a secret hidden developer console built in! The reason for this is that VS Code is built with Electron. Electron uses web techn...

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