# Trouble setting up p5 in Visual Studio Code

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**Category:** Beginners\
**Created:** [June 27, 2018, 10:47pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/trouble-setting-up-p5-in-visual-studio-code/1324 "2018-06-27T22:47:16Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 25, 2018, 12:06pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/trouble-setting-up-p5-in-visual-studio-code/1324/7 "2018-07-25T12:06:50Z")

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> [@W1nDs0R](#):
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> Would you say Firefox and Notepad++ is an optimal workflow for developing graphical applications…

Notepad++ and other similar frugal text editors are more geared towards small projects like Processing sketches and quick file edits.

IDEs like Sublime, Atom, Brackets, Eclipse, etc., are more appropriate for bigger projects.

Firefox and its derivatives browsers can run “.js” code directly under the `file://` scheme.

Chromium-based browsers can do it too, though w/ some limitations, if we run it w/ a modified shortcut w/ an “–allow-file-access-from-files” argument: [Chrome-allow-file-access-from-file.com/](http://Chrome-allow-file-access-from-file.com/)

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