Microsoft brings lots of new features and improvements to its popular open-source code editor, Visual Studio Code.

In 2015, Microsoft launched its answer to that question: Visual Studio Code. At heart, VS Code is a text editor, based on GitHub’s cross-platform Electron framework.

Download Visual Studio Code Insider. Learn how to sync settings, run public & insider versions together. Difference with Visual Studio IDE also discussed.

So, open Visual Studio Code and go to File > New File. Give it a name of your choice but with .js extension. So, you can name it “javascript.js”. To save it use Ctrl + Shift + S or File > Save As.