Installing Visual Studio Code for your operating system

Download Visual Studio Code from https://code.visualstudio.com/download.

Follow the installation process for your operating system. Again, the recommendation is to have these tools installed on a larger drive above the \repos directory.

Now that Visual Studio has been installed, we can check that Node and npm have been installed from the embedded Terminal shell window.

From the main menu, select Terminal > New Terminal and press Ctrl + Shift for Windows and ^ + Shift + ` for Mac.

The Terminal shell for launching tests is up to your personal choice. PowerShell is recommended for Windows users, ZSH is recommended for Mac users, and Git Bash is great for command-line Git users. But for debugging, JavaScript Debug Terminal is required on both platforms.

From the Terminal window, click the v down arrow next to the + button in the lower-right corner, select JavaScript Debug Terminal, and type the following:

node...