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Visual Studio Code
Visual Studio Code is a Free Open Source code editor that you can use to edit your programs.
Working from Visual Studio code allows you to benefit from all the features of a professional IDE while working with PXT: working with files, git integration (or source control of your choice), hundreds of extensions.
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
sudoto 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 microbit folder.
# create a new subfolder for your project
mkdir myproject
cd myproject
# start the project set
pxt init
# open code
code .
Opening an existing project
You can extract a project from the embedded URL or .hex file. Open a shell to your projects folder
# extract the project from the URL
pxt extract EMBEDURL
where EMBEDURL is the published project URL.