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Hands-On Visual Studio 2022 - Second Edition

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Product type Book
Published in Mar 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781835080443
Pages 336 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
Languages
Authors (2):
Hector Uriel Perez Rojas Hector Uriel Perez Rojas
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Miguel Angel Teheran Garcia Miguel Angel Teheran Garcia
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Preface 1. Part 1: Visual Studio Overview
2. Chapter 1: Getting Started with Visual Studio 2022 3. Chapter 2: Creating Projects and Templates 4. Chapter 3: Debugging and Profiling Your Apps 5. Part 2: Tools and Productivity
6. Chapter 4: Adding Code Snippets 7. Chapter 5: Coding Efficiently with AI and Code Views 8. Chapter 6: Using Tools for Frontend and Backend Development 9. Chapter 7: Styling and Cleanup Tools 10. Chapter 8: Publishing Projects 11. Part 3: GitHub Integration and Extensions
12. Chapter 9: Implementing Git Integration 13. Chapter 10: Sharing Code with Live Share 14. Chapter 11: Working with Extensions in Visual Studio 15. Chapter 12: Using Popular Extensions 16. Chapter 13: Learning Keyboard Shortcuts 17. Index 18. Other Books You May Enjoy

Compiling web libraries with Web Compiler

If you are using TypeScript, LESS, or Sass in a project, you need to pre-compile the code to get the production version of your web project so that your browser can read every line of code. Note that your browser can only read CSS, HTML, and JavaScript. Using Web Compiler by Jason Moore in VS, you can do this easily and see the precompiled code directly.

Now that we know what Web Compiler is, let’s install it and understand how to take advantage of this tool.

To install Web Compiler, go to Extensions | Manage Extensions, type web compiler in the search bar, and install the Web Compiler 2022+ extension, as shown in Chapter 11, Working with Extensions in Visual Studio.

To use Web Compiler, we can navigate to and select any JavaScript file in any project and then right-click it. This will display the Compile file option in the menu, as shown in Figure 12.8:

Figure 12.8 – The "Web Compiler" option in the project to compile a file

Figure 12.8 – The "Web Compiler...

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