To be able to in Visual Studio Code, we need to have installed NodeJS on our system and have a Javascript file created with some content. Before being able to run Javascript on Visual Studio Code, we need to install Visual Studio Code and NodeJS. Visual Studio Code is the IDE (Integrated Development Environment) we will be using throughout the article and NodeJS is the engine that allows Javascript to run locally. Installing Visual Studio Code Go to https://code.visualstudio.com/ Download installer Run the installer Accept terms and conditions and next, next, next... Visual Studio Code is ready to be used, but we still need NodeJs to run Javascript locally Check if NodeJS is installed already and the version Open command prompt Start menu (Finder if you are using mac). Write ( if you are using mac). And open it. Type on the command windows If NodeJS is present in the system, you´ll see something like being that the installed version of Node (It could be other version, no worries). Installing NodeJs Go to https://nodejs.org Download the recommended version. Run the installer. Accept terms and conditions and next, next, next... Now that we have NodeJS installed on our system, we can run Javascript locally and Visual Studio Code as our IDE, but how to run Javascript on Visual Studio Code? Let´s set up our Javascript project Start Visual Studio Code. Open a new . Write on the terminal . stands for is the keyword for NodeJs to create a new project. is to pass as a default all values. If successful, a file will be created on your project folder. Right click on the file explorer (where the is displayed) and select new file. We are naming it (js is a Javascript extension). Now let´s write some Javascript code on our file. Go on, write on the terminal: Remember to take out the "$" And you´ll see on the terminal the message displayed. Still, I prefer to do it another way, since it allows for a more robust and personalized way to run our file. Remember the we created with ? Well, we are editing now. We will make that, every time we type on the Visual Studio terminal, it´ll execute our file. Select to edit it. Add Careful! We added a at the end of line 7, if the is missing, the JSON format is not correct and will throw errors / won´t work. Now, we can run our Javascript project like this: