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Cockpit comes with a web-based code editor that enables us to change our application's source code on the fly. Just like any other typical editor, it has a file tree, can open multiple source files and lets us add and delete files.

Additional features for Smart Contract files

When opening a Smart Contract source file in Cockpit's editor, we'll get additional features and options to work with. These features are Interact, Details and Transactions, very similar to the ones we've discussed in Exploring Smart Contracts.

Cockpit will open up dedicated view for each of these in another in-pane window as shown below: