Is there an "immediate window" in Visual Studio Code to run Javascript?

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default_noob_network picture default_noob_network · Sep 21, 2015 · Viewed 29.2k times · Source

Yes, I use F12 in the browser all the time to test out Javascript snippets with the console. I'm tired of that (for the moment anyway).

I've read that in Visual Studio you can use the immediate window to run Javascript interactively.. I've haven't tried it that hard. I think when I did it told me it can't evaluate while in design mode... ugh, what a pain.

I do like to use Visual Studio Code (sublime text historically) sometimes to just mess around with syntax of snippets. Would also be nice if I could just run Javascript there too quickly. Is there a package I could download in VSCode to do so? Or something already built in?

Answer

Craig Walker picture Craig Walker · Sep 13, 2016

As of (at least) my current version of VS Code (1.5.2), the "Debug Console", while debugging, lets you run arbitrary JavaScript code as you would in the VS Immediate Window. (Similar to as you would for the Chrome Dev Tools Console.)

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