What are your favorite VS Code extensions and why?

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[Bhanu Sunka]

I found one really cool vscode theme named Jellyfish-x-retro 🚀🚀
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[Nicolas Hoizey]

Thanks for your answer, I'll try eslint autofix too.

[Nicolas Hoizey]

Looks like prettier.eslintIntegration: true is deprecated

[Venkatesh KL]

Settings Sync
Nothing even comes close how useful this is for me.

These just follow settings sync 😉
Better Comments
Prettier
Eslint
Git history

[Bogdan Alexandru Militaru]

Hi Brian! I created an article on this topic, maybe you can take a look on it here boobo94.xyz/tips/vscode-setup-for-...

[Jakub Míšek]

PHP Tools for VS Code - first I'm developing it, second it is really fun to work on a complete editor integration and peek into developers needs and problems.

[Braden Watkins]

My favorite language-agnostic extensions

• dark-plus-syntax- Current theme
• GitLens - Enough said
• Output Colorizer Syntax highlighting for log files
• Path Autocomplete - Best path complete extension I've found so far
• Prettier - To format all the things
• Settings Sync - Makes setting up VSCode on a new workspace a breeze.
• Snippet Creator - Best snippet creator I've found
• Sort Lines - Comes in surprisingly handy
• Spell Checker - No more spelling mistakes
• VSCode Simpler Icons - Favorite icon set so far

Shameless plug: These are all grouped together into my language agnostic extension pack: Essentials

[Braden Watkins]

Others that I'm test driving, but I'm not sold on yet include:

• Better Comments - Syntax highlighting for different kinds of comments
• Gist - Create, open and edit gists
• jumpy - Fast cursor movement based on a similar package in Atom
• Partial Diff - Diff two bits of text right in VSCode
• Peacock - Workspace organization
• REST Client - HTTP REST Client right in VSCode

[John Papa Microsoft Azure]

Glad you like Peacock, thanks :)

[Brian Clark 💡]

This is a fantastic list. A bunch I had not heard of so thanks for sharing Braden 👍

[Basile]

• Prettier : Litterally must have for me since I discover it !
• Rest Client : Being bored of Postman, you never need to get out of VSCode now :P
• Material Icons Theme : Support nearly all extensions, also for folders, pretty neat
• Simple React Snippets : Those ones are really what I needed for React development, coupled with React Hooks Snippets, it's awesome !

[Brian Clark 💡]

Yes all great extensions and themes. Thanks for sharing Basile 👍

[Chris Stead]

JS Refactor - automated refactorings for JS, TS, React, Vue, etc. I practically can't work without it anymore. 👍

Bracket Pair Colorizer - colors matching brackets and highlights the current captured area between the brackets. It really simplifies staying within the current scope.

[Brian Clark 💡]

Love me some bracket pair colorizer and really need to look into that JS Refactor one. Thanks for sharing Chris 👍

[Kelson448]

"Prettier" is a must have for me, not having to deal with formatting code manually probably saves me several hours a week.

"Code spell checker" is another key extension, especially when writing user visible text.

"Indent Rainbow" and "Rainbow Brackets" are extremely useful for parsing complexly nested sections.

"Comment anchors" is a huge step up for those TODO comments we all leave. They are color coded, can be navigated directly to via an extension page, and show up on the scroll bar. I frequently use this to mark my path as I'm hunting for an elusive bug or building a complex feature.

[Brian Clark 💡]

For sure Prettier has saved me a ton of time but there have also been times I've felt like I'm in battle with it haha.

I'm gonna check out the comment anchors as that sounds like a nice addition. Thanks for sharing 👍