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Empirica v1 Docs
  • Introduction
  • Getting Started
    • Setup
      • Windows WSL Instructions
    • Creating your experiment
    • Running your experiment
    • Updating your experiment
  • Guides
    • Tutorial: Your First Experiment
      • Part 1: Getting Started
      • Part 2: Configuring the Experiment
      • Part 3: Adding Social Information and New Factors
      • Part 4: Adding Chats
      • Part 5: Adding Bots
    • The Settings File
      • Specifying Login Details
      • Setting player ids via URL queries
      • Connecting Locally to MongoDB
    • The Admin Panel
    • Special Empirica Elements (and how to modify them)
    • Deploying Your Experiment
      • Database
      • Hosting
    • Managing the Data
    • Using Custom Collections
  • Conceptual Overview
    • Structure
    • Game Life Cycle
      • Customising when players submit stages
    • Concepts
    • Randomization & Batches
    • API
  • FAQ
    • I need help!
    • The Processes and Elements of an Empirica Experiment
    • Managing Players and Games
  • Community Demos
    • Guess The Correlation
    • Random Dot Motion
    • Room Assignment
  • Tips & Tricks
    • Helpful Linux Commands
    • Code Editors
  • Links
    • Empirica website
    • Twitter
    • GitHub
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  1. Tips & Tricks

Code Editors

There are multiple code editors that you could use in when creating your Empirica apps. Here we share some information about Editors/IDEs we use and recommend.

PreviousHelpful Linux Commands

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VS Code

Visual Studio Code (VS Code) is a cross-platform editor from Microsoft. It has a plethora of features, built-in tools, and plugins to help your write and debug your Empirica code. And it is particularly easy to install, launch, and use.

To get started, head over to , download the installer, and follow the instructions. That's it's you're ready to go.

On Windows with WSL

You first need to install it on your normal Windows machine as instructed above. Then you need to get this extension install on your VS Code:

Once this is done, you can easily launch VS Code from the command line in your WSL with:

code <directory>

Or if you want to open the directory you are currently in with VS Code you can use:

code .

https://code.visualstudio.com/download
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-vscode-remote.remote-wsl