Visual Studio Code

I’ve gone over to the dark side a little. As I think about the sort of apps I want to make, I realise I am going to need to be able to do back-end web development. My apps are going to need a secure REST api to a database. I guess that means node.js. I’m also conscious that my ticket app needs to run on android, and a short cut around all of that might be to make the whole thing a web app from the start, but with the premium experience on iOS.

So with that in mind, I dropped $18 on the “The Complete Web Developer in 2023: Zero to Mastery ” course on Udemy. I’m not sure how I think I have the time for that, but anyway….

They recommend, and their examples are using, the Sublime Text editor, which has an even simpler (and therefore cooler) look than VS Code, but I was already impressed with VSCode so I’ve been using that, and gotta say, love it. Things just keep working how I expect, and a fair bit of that is due to good plugins.

This ZTM course is a bit different to what I’ve been getting from the 100 Days of SwiftUI, but like that, it starts of by saying you need to do the things to be accountable or you’ll likely drop out along the way. That’s a fair point, and I thought about adding it to my posting, but really it’s more of a side project so I’m not sure you would see that here.

I could (and might) start another blog for it, but I’ve committed to myself to post here on something (at least vaguely) iOS development related, and some week’s that’s a struggle, so I guess we’ll see.