[HOW TO] install Visual Studio Code in Arch Linux

I am moving Linux working environment from Ubuntu to Antergos. And I need to install Visual Studio Code for working with Git. 

Also saw something on this progress that is needed for newbie. So I write down this article. Hope it can be help you faster. 

This article follows step-by-step theory, so it is easy to do. 

Step 1:

You must download git repository 

[root@cliff Downloads]# git clone https://AUR.archlinux.org/visual-studio-code-bin.git

Step 2:

Then go inside 

[root@cliff Downloads]# cd visual-studio-code-bin/
[root@cliff visual-studio-code-bin]# ls
PKGBUILD  visual-studio-code.desktop  visual-studio-code-url-handler.desktop

Step 3:

And make a pacman package

[cliff@cliff visual-studio-code-bin]$ makepkg -s
==> Making package: visual-studio-code-bin 1.33.1-1 (Mon 29 Apr 2019 03:59:40 PM +07)
==> Checking runtime dependencies...
==> Installing missing dependencies...
...
==> Finished making: visual-studio-code-bin 1.33.1-1 (Mon 29 Apr 2019 04:00:34 PM +07)

makepkg should download *.tar.gz from Visual Studio Code and convert it to pacman package 

==> Finished making: visual-studio-code-bin 1.33.1-1 (Mon 29 Apr 2019 04:00:34 PM +07)

Step 4:

Then install 

[cliff@cliff visual-studio-code-bin]$ sudo pacman -U visual-studio-code-bin-1.33.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar 

Step 5:

Finally, you can start it for now. I am using i3, so can take it via Ctrl + D and type "visual studio code" and press. 

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