💐 VSCode is itself a JavaScript REPL 🔁

Either you,

1. Use a code editor and edit multiple lines, then jump into a console to try out what you wrote⏳, or
2. You use an interactive command line, and work with one line at a time —continuously editing & evaluating 🔄

The first approach sucks cause your code and its resulting behaviour occur in different places 😢 The second is only realistic for small experimentation —after all, you're in a constrained environment and don't generally have the same features that your code editor provides 🧟‍♂️

With the VSCode Easy-Extensibility extension, we get both approaches! No need to switch between the two any more! Just select some code and press Cmd+E ---E for Evaluate! 😉

Why the strange name? Why isn't this extension called something more informative, such as JS-repl-to-the-moon? 👀 Take another look at the above gif 🔼 Besides plain old JavaScript, this extension let's us alter VSCode itself!! (It's a meta-extension! 😲)

Let's do what math-nerds call proof by definition-chasing:

1. Definition: REPL, an alias for command line, stands for Read-Evaluate-Print-Loop
2. Cmd+E will echo the results in the notification area, in the bottom right-corner of VSCode
3. So it retains each of the read, eval, and print parts of the Read-Evaluate-Print-Loop
4. Moreover, since the program doesn't terminate, you're still in the loop part until you close VSCode

Bye! 👋 🥳