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VS Code Just Got a Big Update!

3 min readFeb 4, 2022

Welcome back! VS Code is an awesome code editor that is used by many people across the world, if you’re new to VS Code, check out their website below:

Visual Studio Code - Code Editing. Redefined

Visual Studio Code is a code editor redefined and optimized for building and debugging modern web and cloud…

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Guess what? VS Code just got another big update, this update is the January 2022 update, and it brings alot of newer improvements, if you want to check out their entire release log, here is a link to that:

Visual Studio Code January 2022

Welcome to the January 2022 release of Visual Studio Code. There are many updates in this version that we hope you will…

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Let’s go ahead and hit on some of my favorite improvements with this update!

Newer Side Panel

Starting off, VS Code now has a newer side panel, this allows you to house views from the side bar or the bottom panel! They showcase how this new side bar is implemented: