Facebook Adopts Visual Studio Code for Internal Development

As reported by the Facebook team, they are making Microsoft's Visual Studio Code the default development ecosystem at Facebook and partnering with Microsoft to improve their Remote Development extensions to empower the developers to perform Remote Development at scale.

History

So far, the developers at Facebook have written millions of codes, but there was no assigned development environ for them.

While some of the developers used the Vim ecosystem, some use Emacs, and even more, some of the Facebook developers use their internal, unified development environment named Nuclide.

Why Visual Studio Code?

The source code editor - Visual Studio Code can be employed with several programming languages. Further, it allows the developers and mobile application development services to open one or more directories and then save those in the workspace for future reuse.

This source-code editor is a remarkably popular development tool with excellent investment and support from Microsoft and the open-source community. Visual Studio Code runs on Windows, Linux, macOS, and has a compelling API extension that allows the developers to continue building the critical aptitudes required for the large-scale development company like Facebook, as well as for leading iOS app development company, and Android app development company. 

Hence, Facebook adopts Microsoft Visual Studio Code to support its development platform future safely.

Improved Remote Development Practice

As stated by Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code team, they first released the remote extensions as the Remote Development is a looming trend. While the use cases of Facebook might be more advanced, any developer or development company can obtain the advantages of Remote Development, like - 

work with larger, faster, or more functional hardware than what’s available on their local system

create a customized, dedicated ecosystem for individual project and its specific dependencies, without bothering of errors due to distinct or contradictory configurations

support adaptability to promptly switch between multiple running development ecosystem without affecting the local resources as well as the tool performance

Further, to help Microsoft improve its Remote Development offering, Facebook has contributed input through their experience and expertise supporting Remote Development for Nuclide. And now, Microsoft has devised such a powerful remoting experience that allows the development companies to develop their custom solution.

In Conclusion…

Now, there is a piece of exciting news for the leading Android and iOS app development company in India. 

Visual Studio Code is now an authorized part of Facebook’s development future. Further, the Remote Development skills, added by Microsoft, after Facebook adopts Visual Studio Code internally, are open as extensions for the Visual Studio Code users.

In partnering with Microsoft, Facebook is looking forward to becoming a part of the community, which helps Visual Studio Code to grow as the world-class development tool.