VSCodium is the VSCode codebase with all of the MS telemetry stuff removed. Combined with any number of react plugins it's pretty much the de-facto standard for react webdev.
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That sounds perfect, thanks.
Apologies for the boring answer, but I just use VSCodium which is basically VS Code but compiled without the Microsoft specific stuff, including telemetry.
I mostly use it because it still works with the VS Code extensions that I need and it's handy to have a dev environment that's similar to my coworkers' (who mostly use VS Code)
That sounds great, Ima try it out.
If you're into privacy, probably want to stay away from a Facebook Framework - I use https://preactjs.com/ whenever I can.
Very interesting, Ima check out Preact, thanks.
You got it, if you have any questions just ping me
I use DOOM Emacs. is it potentially a bit of overkill? sure. but it's got all the plugins I need, built in terminal, built in git tui, built in file manager, and depending on what i'm writing web dev stuff in it automatically sets up a sort of basic bootstrap for me.
Yes there is a bit of a learning curve but honestly I just don't bother using anything else now.
Kate is also great.
Aw yeah I used Emacs way back like 20+ years ago, I'll take a look at that framework (and Kate), thanks.