The last time I did any web development it was at a company that forced us to all use MS Windows and Visual Studio Code. I haven’t done anything like that in a while and I don’t even have access to a Windows install, but I want to do a bit of REACT-style web development (mostly remembering how to do it, i.e. basic tutorials.)
I guess I could install Visual Studio Code in Linux, but I’d like to take this opportunity to start using a better IDE. What’s the best privacy-respecting IDE for REACT-style web development?
Thanks.
Apologies for the boring answer, but I just use VSCodium which is basically VS Code but compiled without the Microsoft specific stuff, including telemetry.
I mostly use it because it still works with the VS Code extensions that I need and it’s handy to have a dev environment that’s similar to my coworkers’ (who mostly use VS Code)
That sounds great, Ima try it out.
I use DOOM Emacs. is it potentially a bit of overkill? sure. but it’s got all the plugins I need, built in terminal, built in git tui, built in file manager, and depending on what i’m writing web dev stuff in it automatically sets up a sort of basic bootstrap for me.
Yes there is a bit of a learning curve but honestly I just don’t bother using anything else now.
Kate is also great.
Aw yeah I used Emacs way back like 20+ years ago, I’ll take a look at that framework (and Kate), thanks.
I really like Kate and I set it up similar to this guide.
Thanks, I’ll check it out.
If you’re into privacy, probably want to stay away from a Facebook Framework - I use https://preactjs.com/ whenever I can.
Very interesting, Ima check out Preact, thanks.
You got it, if you have any questions just ping me
VSCodium is the VSCode codebase with all of the MS telemetry stuff removed. Combined with any number of react plugins it’s pretty much the de-facto standard for react webdev (and works in Windows, Mac and Linux)
That sounds perfect, thanks.
