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My Top 10 VS Code Extensions

Parwinder 👨🏻‍💻 on July 01, 2020

Today, I am going to take a slight break from writing about JavaScript and re-visit my favorite editor, Visual Studio Code or VS Code. We are going...
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Aleksandar Panic • • Edited

For Autoclose tag I would replace it with Emmet plugin.
It expands things like: ul>li*2 into:

<ul>
<li></li>
<li></li>
</ul>

There are tons of things you can specify and generate html really quicky.

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Parwinder 👨🏻‍💻 •

Emmet is definitely great. Autoclose is one-off tags you might be writing or if you are not used to Emmet. Thanks for the feedback ❤️

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Vuelancer •

Great List!


  • Instead of polacode, I use codesnap! It has few configuration things and I personally like codesnap! (Another alternative -> carbon.now.sh)

  • We can use Zen mode Ctrl + K Z instead of an extension like presentation! Reducing the number of extensions running background.

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Parwinder 👨🏻‍💻 •

Thanks! Zen Mode is what I use for coding. For presentation, especially on projectors (640x480), I have to stick with the Presentation plugin otherwise the code is not legible. I could manually zoom in when presenting, though.

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Vuelancer •

Ohh! Then I try presentation mode!
Thank you bro!

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ElectroMantis •

Akin to the rainbow csv plugin (good find btw) There are several extensions that also colorize your brackets and braces -

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Parwinder 👨🏻‍💻 •

Bracket Pair Colorizer is a godsend. It should be in VS Code by default. I will have to check out Rainbow Brackets.

I have about 42 extensions and I didn't want to list all of them so I had to pick 10 carefully.

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Sylvain GIROD •

I used Rainbow Brackets in Android Studio/IntelliJ for years, I'm so happy there is an equivalent for VSCode !
Thanks

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Fer Molina •

Thanks for sharing.

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Demóstenes Brito •

Thanks for sharing!

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Roman Torres •

Thanks for sharing.

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Bhanu Sunka •

I found one really cool vscode theme named Jellyfish-x-retro 🚀🚀
Do checkout: marketplace.visualstudio.com/items...