The Best Visual Studio Code Extensions
It's so important for us as code craftsmen and craftswomen to know our tools and get better at using them. When a tool is critical to our workflow, tiny increases in productivity lead to huge gains overtime. Since we work out of our code editors everyday, extensions are a great way to increase productivity (as well as making our editor our home).
Since I've been geeking out over Visual Studio Code recently, here's my list of the best VSCode extensions that I've come across so far.
- Sublime Text Keymap – Use Sublime Text keyboard shortcuts.
- Settings Sync – Setup a GitHub gist once and backup your configuration settings.
- GitLens – Git supercharged – Powerful Git tool for visualizing code authorship and diff comparing at a glance.
- Path Intellisense – Autocomplete filenames. This makes importing modules in ES6 a breeze.
- Contextual Duplicate – Duplicates highlighted text like Sublime Text, instead of duplicating the entire line. If you don’t have anything highlighted, it will duplicate the entire line.
- Auto Close Tag – Automatically add HTML/XML close tag like Sublime Text.
- vscode-icons – Icons for VSCode.
- Bracket Pair Colorizer – Changes the color of each pair of brackets to make it easier for scanning.
- Project Manager – Manage your projects right inside Visual Studio Code. Easily access and switch between them.
- Prettier – Opinionated autoformatter for frontend code.
- Open in GitHub / Bitbucket / GitLab / VisualStudio.com – Like GitHubinator for Sublime Text, jump to a source code line in GitHub or other clients.
- One Dark Pro – Atom’s iconic One Dark theme for VSCode
- File Utils – Adds convenient commands for creating, duplicating, moving, renaming, and deleting files and directories.
See the popular VSCode extensions here.
This blog post was originally posted on nicknish.blog.
