Chromebook (Chrome OS) Dev Environment Setup

Setup Home Dev Environment on Chromebook

This has links to information on setting up VS Code and Node on a Chromebook. If you have trouble following the tutorial (or run into problems in general setting it up), contact Prof Stein.

chromebook on white desk
Photo by heylagostechie on Unsplash

Total Time Needed: 3 hours (estimate)

Steps to Setup Your Development Environment

Step 1: Follow the Tutorial on the VS Code Web Site

This tutorial is pretty good. I tried it and was able to do this. You should only need to follow until NVM and Node are installed. We are not using Python.

https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2020/12/03/chromebook-get-started

Follow these three steps.

You can ignore the steps after that.

Step 2: Check that it is working

You should be able to open up VS Code and work in it.

Hopefully, you’re done and it’s installed. If not, let me know and we will work it out.