

- #Microsoft visual studio code editor statically linked install#
- #Microsoft visual studio code editor statically linked windows#
#Microsoft visual studio code editor statically linked windows#
One of your windows will have your content and the other will have your markdown preview. Once the split editor is open click on the open preview button for one of the windows. Paste in some markdown content then open up the split editor. You can begin writing your content below the front matter. The data in the front matter is used to customize the content generation process.

The file will contain some meta data commonly referred to as front matter in the static site world. Open the newly created content file to begin editing it.

Your visual studio code window should look similar to the following screenshot. The above command will create a folder called vscode-articles in the content folder then create a file called creating-static-sites.md in that folder. Shell> hugo new /vscode-articles/creating-static-sites.md Run the following command to create your first page. To understand more about using hugo to generate static sites I encourage you to view their documentation.īack in the command shell (hoping maybe I or someone will figure out a way to add hugo commands to visual studio code). The public folder will be created the first time you generate the site. When you generate your static site, it will process and copy the generated content along with static assets to the public folder. It is important to understand that the files in these folders are not what is uploaded to the webserver. The static folder is reserved for static assets such as your javascript and css. The content folder is the designated location for your markdown files. Visual studio code should open to reveal a screen similar to the following screenshot. While still in the staticsite folder run the following command to open the project in Visual Studio Code. Opening the project in Visual Studio Code The git add command will allow git to track the files initially generated by the hugo. The staticsite folder should now contain a stub for your new site and git repository. Please follow the instructions for installing Visual Studio Code here.Ĭreate your static site using the hugo new site command and initialize git for source control.
#Microsoft visual studio code editor statically linked install#
If you are on a Mac then it can use homebrew to install it.

Please follow the instructions for installing Go Hugo here. Let us walk through creating a static site using Go Hugo (Static Site Generator) and Visual Studio Code. The built in source control support also allows you to save your content, code and other site assets to a git repository. For people who use static site generators or write articles in markdown, Visual Studio Code offers a great one stop shop for writing and previewing static content and markup. One thing you might not know about Visual Studio Code is its great markdown editor and preview feature. It turned out to be great for Node.js editing because of its awesome Node.js debugger. When I heard about it my initial thought was “Great another editor”. Visual Studio Code is a lightweight cross platform code editor which provides syntax highlighting, debugging and intellisense support for various programming languages.
