pxt-calliope/docs/code.md

Visual Studio Code

Visual Studio Code is a Free Open Source code editor. Edit your programs with

Tools setup

Follow these instructions to setup your machine and edit your programs in Visual Studio Code.

• install Visual Studio Code
• install Node.JS
• install the PXT Tools (on Mac or Linux, you might have to add sudo to the command).

pxt install -g pxt

• create a folder for your projects

mkdir microbit

• install the microbit target

pxt target microbit

That's it! You are ready to create new projects in code or open existing projects.

Creating a new project

Open a shell to your projects folder.

# create a new subfolder for your project
mkdir myproject
# start the project set
pxt init
# open code
code. 

Opening an existing project

You can extract a project from the embedded URL. Open a shell to your projects folder

# extract the project from the URL
pxt extract EMBEDURL

where EMBEDURL is the published project URL.