For Windows - Open your Default Browser - Tested on VS Code v 1.1.0
Answer to both opening a specific file (name is hard-coded) OR opening ANY other file.
Steps:
Use ctrl + shift + p (or F1) to open the Command Palette.
Type in
Tasks: Configure Taskor on older versionsConfigure Task Runner. Selecting it will open the tasks.json file. Delete the script displayed and replace it by the following:{ "version": "0.1.0", "command": "explorer", "windows": { "command": "explorer.exe" }, "args": ["test.html"] }Remember to change the "args" section of the tasks.json file to the name of your file. This will always open that specific file when you hit F5.
You may also set the this to open whichever file you have open at the time by using
["${file}"]as the value for "args". Note that the$goes outside the{...}, so["{$file}"]is incorrect.Save the file.
Switch back to your html file (in this example it's "text.html"), and press ctrl + shift + b to view your page in your Web Browser.
For Windows - Open your Default Browser - Tested on VS Code v 1.1.0
Answer to both opening a specific file (name is hard-coded) OR opening ANY other file.
Steps:
Use ctrl + shift + p (or F1) to open the Command Palette.
Type in
Tasks: Configure Taskor on older versionsConfigure Task Runner. Selecting it will open the tasks.json file. Delete the script displayed and replace it by the following:{ "version": "0.1.0", "command": "explorer", "windows": { "command": "explorer.exe" }, "args": ["test.html"] }Remember to change the "args" section of the tasks.json file to the name of your file. This will always open that specific file when you hit F5.
You may also set the this to open whichever file you have open at the time by using
["${file}"]as the value for "args". Note that the$goes outside the{...}, so["{$file}"]is incorrect.Save the file.
Switch back to your html file (in this example it's "text.html"), and press ctrl + shift + b to view your page in your Web Browser.
VS Code has a Live Server Extension that supports one click launch from status bar.
Some of the features:
- One Click Launch from Status Bar
- Live Reload
- Support for Chrome Debugging Attachment
Videos
I'm working on an assignment in Visual Studio Code and currently only my index.html page is running smoothly. With the other pages, I keep getting this error message, "Can't find Node.js binary "node": path doesn't exist. Make sure Node.js is installed and in your path or set the :runtimeExecutable" in your launch.json". I asked my professor and he told me I shouldn't be running the code via VS Code but in the browser. Now I'm a little lost. I was running my index file through Microsoft Edge but I'm unsure how what he means or how to do so.
EDIT: I figured it out. Thanks for the responses everyone.
You can install the following extensions.
- Live Server.
- Chrome Debugger.
Once you have these two extensions installed, open the page index.html using the live server and then press F12 to open the developer tools for chrome.
And then you can paste a single line of code on the debugger like this.
document.querySelector('button').addEventListener('click',()=>{
console.log("Event Raised");
};
You can do like this
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
<title>Document</title>
</head>
<body>
<button>Test</button>
<script>
const button = documnet.querySelector("button")
if(button) {
button.addEventListener("click", () => {
console.log("This Works")
})
}
</script>
</body>
</html>