Run JavaScript in Visual Studio Code

Question

Is there a way to execute JavaScript and display the results using Visual Studio Code?

For example, a script file containing:

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Answer 1

Another way would be to open terminal ctrl+` execute node. Now you have a node REPL active. You can now send your file or selected text to terminal. In order to do that open VSCode command pallete (F1 or ctrl+shift+p) and execute >run selected text in active terminal or >run active file in active terminal.

If you need a clean REPL before executing your code you will have to restart the node REPL. This is done when in the Terminal with the node REPL ctrl+c ctrl+c to exit it and typing node to start new.

You could probably key bind the command pallete commands to whatever key you wish.

PS: node should be installed and in your path