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Introduction to the web IDE

Introduction to the web IDE - GitLab Tutorial

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Introduction to the web IDE

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- [Instructor] Now that we have our branch, let's make some changes to it. Instead of the basic editor we've been using, let's take a look at the Web IDE. First, make sure the branch is selected in the dropdown here. So click on main and go down to changes. Then click into your read me file and we'll go over to edit and select open in Web IDE. This is the more advanced and fully featured editor built into GitLab. It might look familiar to some of you. GitLab actually uses a web-based version of Visual Studio Code. If you'd like to learn more about how to work with VS Code, there's a lot of content available on the LinkedIn Learning Library. Since we'll just be using markdown in this course, we won't really be able to take advantage of a lot of the advanced Web IDE features. We do get some syntax highlighting. So the headers in our markdown file are a different color here. Just to demonstrate what's possible with the Web ID, let's create a new file and we'll just call this web_ide.js…

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