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My thoughts on Sublime vs. Visual Studio Code for Javascript/NodeJS projects

Marika Lam
2 min readApr 18, 2022

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Some background: the tools and languages I primarily use for my projects are NodeJS and Javascript. After using Sublime Text Editor and Visual Studio Code, here are some points of comparison between the 2 editors.

Visual Studio Code

  • Microsoft’s free text editor that runs on Windows, Linux, and macOS.
  • Visual Studio Code allows you to edit code in a wide variety of programming languages.
  • Visual Studio Code includes debugging functionality to help detect those errors.
  • Visual Studio Code automatically detects minor problems in your code.
  • Visual Studio could be classed as an integrated development environment (IDE).
  • Visual Studio provides more hand-holding and is a great option for its debugging functionality, but might slow some speedy experienced programmers down when it comes to writing code.

Sublime Text Editor (Version 3)

  • The first major difference between it and Visual Studio Code (VSC) is that it has a license fee of $80, although it does have a free trial version.
  • It opened pretty quickly compared to Visual Studio Code.
  • Package Control is similar to Visual Studio’s extension marketplace, but it isn’t available out-of-the-box.
  • There is a menu in Sublime Text dedicated to all of the “Goto” functionality…

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