tools.md

Tools

We will use the Atom.io text editor and Chrome browser during this course.

Install this software

• Chrome (the browser)

• Atom.io (the text editor)

What you need to know

• You want to know how to use the console in Chrome developer tools. Here's a helpful resource.

• In Atom.io you want to install a linter. A linter tells you when you make mistakes while you're writing code. Here's what you need:

  1. How to install a package in Atom
  2. The linter package
  3. The linter-eslint package

Optional resources

• A free course on using Chrome Dev tools (don't be scared by the more advanced parts of this tutorial, do as much as you feel comfortable doing)

• An extremely beginner friendly tutorial on YouTube for learning how to use Atom. You're interested in getting to videos 10 and 11 where you learn how to install packages and linters.

Introducing REPLs

REPL stands for Read Eval Print Loop. A REPL is a tool you can use to program interactively. Chrome's developer console is a REPL. Repl.it is another REPL, which also lets you write scripts on the left-hand side.

Go play with a REPL.