Credits: Unsplash/Joshua Aragon

Recently, I was at the Boryspil Airport in Ukraine, working on a blog article, when suddenly my VS Code stopped working. It actually crashed! Not once, but twice in less than 30 minutes. Some of the content was autosaved, but some of it was gone forever.

I was frustrated at first as to why it had to crash at that moment. After re-opening the editor, I was angry with myself because I had to write some of the stuff that didn’t get saved again.

Before this experience, it did at times feel that I had too many extensions that I wasn’t using, as I stopped working with some of the frameworks in recent months (Angular, for example).

What did I do? The emotions weren’t helping; I had to find a better way. So, I re-installed VS Code.

VS Code uses Electron as its base which enables it to be cross-platform and work on macOS, Windows, and Linux. It is built using Node.js and has complete support for any JavaScript developer.

Now, that’s what I call win-win. It’s fast compared to the previous editors (Atom) and IDE’s (Webstorm) I have used.