Git shines when you need to roll back after messing things up, or as part of a larger setup, where you publish your live branch to the live server, and the dev branch to a development server, that sort of thing. It’s enough to just start an account and store files there.

You don’t need to go knee-deep in git to use GitHub, though. That means you’ll push and pull code to the repository, sorting it in branches, and releasing versions if you will. If you’re unfamiliar with GitHub, it’s a service (also owned by Microsoft these days) for storing code (and other things) using git version control. That’s right, we need a GitHub account, and a repository, for this to work. At least not if you use GitHub to manage your codebase. Unfortunately, there isn’t an official iPad app just yet, but that doesn’t mean you can’t use VS Code on your iPad. It’s made by Microsoft and is available for macOS, Windows, and Linux. One of the most popular code editors for web developers today, is Visual Studio Code, or VS Code for short.

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