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VS Code itself is great for reviewing and editing Markdown with nice preview support.
If you want to use VS Code, simply navigate to the vscode-docs directory and launch VS Code from there:
cd vscode-docs
code .
You can now open any of the Markdown files and easily toggle between preview with the Open Preview button in the upper right of the editor.
