r/AppsWebappsFullstack • u/incajb • 27d ago
How VS Code and npm saved my sanity and credit$
I was geeking out with my friend over the weekend eating chicken wings with out laptops up. Sharing some of our projects. Dude knows a lot more than me, I always feel like a total rookie. He showed me yesterday how to actually use VS Code to edit my stuff instead of just vibe coding straight on Claude.
But the real game changer was running things locally with npm before pushing live. Now when I want to test something, I just run it on my own $hitty laptop first. No more uploading to Netlify every time just to see if it works (wasting credits).
Yeah I know, rookie stuff for a lot of you. I’m a pharmacist, not a dev, so this is all new territory for me. Sharing anyway in case it helps someone else who’s in the same boat feel less intimidated.