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7 BEST VS Code Extensions for Faster Development — 2024 Edition 🚀

Best Codes on September 14, 2024

How is This Article Different? Recently, I've seen lots of posts about VS Code extensions. But did you know that many of the posts are o...
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I mostly wrote this post because I was sad to see a lot of clickbait, low effort, or misinformation posts spreading. It may seem a bit redundant, but this is a real, accurate post written by a human — it would be nice if you can support it by liking it. 🙂

Thank you!

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Đỗ Thiện Hoàng

Thanks very much. I am so tired of seeing those AI-generated posts, even on Twitter (X now). Those poor, low effort content creators are shameless

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Glad I could help. 😊

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Rob Benzo

ikr, all the ai JUNK is driving me crazy, i can't find good content anymore

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Junk in general drives me crazy. As long as AI content is good, I'm fine with it, but unchecked effortless garbage is not only annoying but also harmful.

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Rob Benzo

yeah

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Đỗ Thiện Hoàng

Not only they unchecked the content, they also repeated in posting them week to week 😆

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That's also bothersome. :D
Often, the same post contains the same extension more than once as well. 😂

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Thanks for the feedback, everybody. :D

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Stefan Neidig

I don't know man. Not sure how Code Snap helps me to develop faster. Would have loved some extensions that actually help and an explanation why. For example

  • Error Lens -> Helps you track and fix errors faster
  • Github Actions -> Syntax highlighting and yaml lint so that you see erorrs during development and not when you actually run it online
  • Github Copilot / Claude Dev - for obvious reasons
  • Project Manager -> Find your projects faster

I hope you get the idea. Every extension is still debatable, but these are actually ones that help you develop faster (as your title suggests)

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As I said in my post:

This extension doesn't particularly enhance your productivity, but it has saved me a lot of time (I'm picky about how I present my code)!

I also like all the extensions you suggested. :)

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Stefan Neidig

Ah nevermind then. I must have overread this and focused to much on the title :D Fair point then

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:) I can see where you're coming from. I might make some edits just to make things a bit clearer.

Thanks for the feedback!

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Christophe Avonture

Remove postman (paid) and replace by ThunderClient (free for private use and just excellent with a tremendous support)

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Postman is free.

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It's worked fine for me:

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Martin Baun • Edited

One thing I would love about codesnap is to be able to configure the background/padding size. But anyway it's already very much usable and appreciated.

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Yeah, it would be nice. I think there are some variants of it that might be more customizable, but I like CodeSnap because it's simple.

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Martin Baun

Absolutely :)

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cosma203

Thank you so much for sharing, awesome list! I would like to recommend one more, that shows errors inline with the code. It works flawlessly with JS/TS and Go.

marketplace.visualstudio.com/items...

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I checked out Error Lens and I love it! I might have to add that one in if I make another post.

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anscarlett

I dont like the postman plugin at all, I use the REST Client plugin.
Running api calls from a plain text file means I can easily add them to git along with the source code.

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Cool! I'll check that out.

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Damilola Emmanuel Olowookere • Edited

When working with databases, DevDb rocks too!

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Alternate Existance

interesting perspective on all the listicles right now maybe it could a bit nicer but i do agree and good job!!

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Thanks for the following up so quickly! I'll try to edit the post to be a bit nicer. Are there any specific areas for improvement?

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MisakaCloud

Cool, some plugins I have never heard of,thanks for listing some new things.

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Glad you liked it :)

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the hengker

it's surprised me since no code runner on your list

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What's 'code runner'?

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Kyle Johnson

Postman is banned from my job.

Codeium looks interesting. It supports a ton of languages.

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Why is Postman it banned?
Codeium is nice! :D

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PRANKUR PANDEY

Hey liked your article even I have also written a similar article you can check here
dev.to/prankurpandeyy/10-vs-code-e...

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Thanks for sharing!

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Rob Benzo

i'm gonna look at it

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shahmir khan

It was really informative 💯/💯.

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Awesome, thank you!

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diana

Love this!!!!

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Glad you enjoyed! :D

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Senthilnathan Subramanian

🙏👍 Thanks

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Glad you enjoyed. :)

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John Vilburn • Edited

Thanks for the article. I will have to try Codeium and Live Share.

One hint for you, in the codesnap section,
Factorial != Fractal
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Thank you!
Thanks for the hint. 🤪

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awesome, i love it!!

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Thanks! Glad you enjoyed!

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🙂

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😃 I can smile bigger :D

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Blok

Cool!

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Thanks :)

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Kehvan Zydhek

Good list! I dropped three of the above into VSCode and am looking forward to seeing how they work. Thanks for bringing these to my attention!

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Thanks for the feedback! Let me know how it goes. :D

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Prajnesh N

Try Preciser VScode Extension

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I will check that out. What's it for?

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ketepe

nice article, thanks for sharing!

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Habibu Umar

Good job this is very useful

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Thank you!

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Brandon Noronha

Wow! These extensions are gonna be super helpful to me! 😀 As I am a fan of VS Code IDE and it's been 3 years I've been using it! And according to me it's one of the best code editors out there! With amazing features like multi cursor functionality, and other amazing shortcuts and extensions! What makes VS Code truly powerful are the extensions! I liked the better comment extension which you mentioned in the article. It looks like the text is raised 🤯

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Glad you found the post useful. :) I appreciate your feedback.