codex-lv2-may-2025

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Lesson: Advanced Settings and Exploration

🎯 Objective

Explore additional settings, understand complex configurations, and create a complete settings file with all learned features.

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🧩 Challenge: Explore More Settings

Setting	Example Value
"editor.minimap.enabled"	false — boolean, no quotes
"editor.lineNumbers"	"on" — string, quotes needed
"files.exclude"	{ "**/node_modules": true } — true/false, no quotes for booleans
"search.exclude"	{ "**/dist": true } — same as above
"workbench.sideBar.location"	"right" — string, use quotes

✅ Reminder: Every key is quoted, strings are quoted, but numbers and booleans are not quoted.

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✅ Complete Example Settings File

Update your ./vscode/settings.json file to look like this:

{
    "workbench.colorTheme": "Default Dark+",
    "editor.minimap.enabled": true,
    "editor.wordWrap": "on",
    "editor.formatOnSave": true,
    "files.autoSave": "afterDelay",
    "workbench.editor.labelFormat": "short"
}

All strings here are quoted, and numbers and booleans are not quoted, following JSON rules.

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✅ Summary

You learned how to:

• Explore advanced VSCode settings
• Understand complex configuration options
• Apply JSON syntax rules consistently
• Create a complete, functional settings file
• Customize your development environment for optimal productivity

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🎯 Next Steps

• Experiment with the settings table above
• Try different combinations of settings
• Explore VSCode’s settings documentation
  • HTML Reference RECOMMENDED!!!
  • JSON Reference
  • JavaScript Reference
• Have a look at other peoples’ shared settings.json files to see if you’d like to try any of those settings.

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