While Codecademy’s learning environment provides an intuitive and user-friending coding experience, sometimes you’ll need to use your own text editor.

Below is the Codecademy text editor in full screen at the end of the first module of the HTML course. Currently, I am using ‘Cobalt Next” theme for my VS Code which has an even darker version for a more subtle color palette which is soothing on the eye for long programming hours.You’ll already be familiar with a text editor if you’ve taken any Codecademy courses. With so many good options available for a dark theme in Visual Studio Code, it is hard to pick just one as favorite. Below I have selected some of the best ones I could find that do nice job in syntax highlighting of many different programming languages and provide coherent color scheme to the entire VS code interface including the status bar. The Dark+ theme which is the default dark theme of VS Code and the Monokai theme are two great options for dark theme lovers.Īpart from the pre-installed themes, you can find many more themes for VS Code in its extensions marketplace. You can preview and switch through these themes by going through File > Preferences > Color Theme ( Code > Preferences > Color Theme on Mac) in menu. VS Code ships with a bunch of pre-installed themes and has some great dark colored themes.

However you may want to check these dark themes before choosing your own: VS Code Dark Themes (Pre-installed themes) I am currently using ‘Cobalt Next’ theme for my own setup. While hunting for a dark theme for VS Code, I came across many great options which I am listing below. VS Code has an excellent support for themes which are available in both light and dark versions. It is available on Windows, Mac as well as Linux, which is a plus if you have many work environments. VS Code is a lightweight editor which is easily customizable via extensions to suit any programming environment setup. There are many code editor choices available for a developer however Visual Studio code is my current favorite.

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