My favorite technology we use for our project isn’t even in our project but it’s just our IDE. We have all been using Visual Studio Code as our main IDE because of how easily it integrates our version control of choice, provides packages for linting/ syntax, and even allows us to code together with the live share package.
Our version control of choice was GitHub, which has native support in Visual Studio Code so users can simply push a button to make git requests. However, I have always gotten confused with those built in UI commands and prefer using a terminal to make git requests which Visual Studio Code also has built in. So, most members of my group really like the built in interface and I like the built in terminal.
As part of our project plan, we decided we would follow good linting which can be difficult to keep track of. However, with visual studio code packages it is easy to know when you are making a linting error and it is easy to keep a standard throughout a group when everyone is using the same linting software/ standard.
Another Package we have been using recently is live share. It allows one person to share a link and then others can work on your computer. Even though we use version control it can be really helpful during meetings and we’re talking about ideas or don’t understand something everyone can work on the code at the same time. Then when it gets pushed to GitHub it shows the names of everyone who was working on live share.
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