🗝️Introduction: Ways to Run and Test Your JavaScript Code

When learning JavaScript, it’s important to know how to run and test your code.

There are multiple ways to do this, depending on whether you want to test directly in the browser or outside of it.

Here are the three main options you’ll use as a beginner:

1️⃣ 🖥️ Run and Test Your Code – Option 1: Open Directly
👉 Simply double-click your index.html file to open it in the browser.

2️⃣ ⚡ Run and Test Your Code – Option 2: Use Live Server
👉 With the Live Server extension in VS Code, your code reloads automatically as you save changes.

3️⃣ 🖧 Option 3: Running JavaScript in the Console (VS Code) using Node.js Without Browser
👉 Run your .js files directly in VS Code’s terminal using Node.js, without needing a browser.

👉 In the coming lessons we will discuss in details each option.

✅ This gives you flexibility: quick tests in the browser 🌐, auto-reload for projects 🔄, or server-like execution with Node.js 🟢⚙️.