How do we make the web work — some tools for our toolbox
- A code editor. Recommendation: Visual Studio Code
with a few extensions: Live Server, HTMLHint - A Web Browser, hopefully you have a favorite. Pick another one more for additional testing, with the aim to have two browsers that come from different groups of the following three: [Chrome, Edge, Brave, Vivaldi], [Safari], [Firefox]. See Browse Happy for easy links to all of these. Oh, and Arc is new browser to checkout too.
I'm not going to ask you to change the browser that you know and use all the time, but I will ask you to have a couple more in the rotation for testing, and to remember that not everyone who views your site will be using your favorite browser.
- Version Control System (VCS), which will allow us to track changes we make to our code. We'll be using Git and GitHub! See About Git and GitHub.
- An SFTP client (SFTP = secure file transfer protocol), such as Cyberduck. An SFTP client lets you move files you have edited locally to your web server account.
There are some more to add to the list eventually, but for now, let's keep it with these!