Visual Studio or VSCode?

[SusanFarr]

I want to develop a Power BI Embedded SPA written in JavaScript.  As a starting point, I was going get GitHub’s PowerBI-Developer-Samples working and then morph/extend the nearest sample into my requirements.  The documentation suggests I need Visual Studio (2013 or later).

Question 1:  Can I use VSCode instead?  What benefits does the full Studio have over VCCode?

Question 2: The samples appears to use jQuery.  I was hoping to develop in a framework like Vue.js.  Will this cause an issue?  Is it possible (and sensible!) to mix the two?  I was thinking developing the main frame using Vue.js, while the  lower level functions (taken from GitHub and the ‘Playground’) use jQuery.  Possible?  Sensible?

Many thanks

Susan