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Daniel Waller (he/him)
Daniel Waller (he/him)

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Show and tell: Show off your VS Code setup :)

Hey DEV community πŸ‘‹

I primarily use VS Code for working with React/TypeScript and Python.
I could use some help and inspiration for really getting the most out of my VS Code experience!

I'd love to see your setups :)
From pretty themes and icon sets to your favorite plugins for productivity and ease of use.

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Andrew Baisden •

Heres mine

Theme: Dracula
Icons: Material Icon Theme
Font: Fira Code

https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/i/t3mf6qfh89k6nkdhpflb.png

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Arun Murugan •

This is exactly my setup too!

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Mark Gagnon •

Exactly my setup

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Pablo Herrero •

Damn hell... I was with Shades of Purple, but I have to go back to Dracula... it's really too good!!!

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Matheus B. •

Just the most beautiful setup, ever!

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George Francis •

Snap!

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Paul Micheli •

Ooooo I like this, thank you

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klyse •

guess who just changed his theme <3

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Pablo Herrero • • Edited

Here's mine:

Theme (sorry, my heart is divided):

  • Dracula (best theme ever...)
  • Shades of purple (best theme ever... too)

Icons: VSCode icons
Font: Fira Code

myVSCode.
myVSCode

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Andrew Baisden •

Shades of purple was my previous theme I even had it for Hyper and iTerm 2. I would probably still be using it if it was not for the fact that I was doing a Kotlin tutorial with IntelliJ IDEA and the teacher was using Dracula which looked cool. Then I remembered that VS Code also has a Dracula theme with over a million downloads. I like my editors to look the same so I changed. But my mood can change like the weather and I never got bored of Shades of purple 😁

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Pablo Herrero •

Yesss, I love Dracula too, it was my previous theme :)

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Daniel Waller (he/him) •

Oh yes I've used that before as well!

If you like purple and feel really crazy, check out 'Cyberpunk' for maximum saturation purple and screaming green accents :D

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Andrew Baisden •

I might actually give that a try when the game Cyberpunk 2077 is released. Total immersion 😎

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Alfonso Reyes • • Edited

I use lucy theme, it comes with 2 variations. I fell in love with the colors of this theme <3

For productivity plugins I like git graph since you can do a few things without the use of the git command and also visualize current branches and previous commits in a visual way just like GitKraken. I also use bookmarks plugin and GitLens to supercharge git support.

Icon theme: Material Icons

click me to see setup

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denvermullets •

that gitgraph looks really cool

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Daniel Waller (he/him) •

Oh yes that git graph does look very nice! Will definitely check out lucy as well :)

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Matheus B. •

ultrawide monitor for see all this stuf

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ShanMen •

What font is this?

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Alfonso Reyes •

It's Cascadia Code

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Hari Haran😎 •

+1 for #Angular

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Florent Catiau-Tristant •

This is actually NestJS, a nodes framework :)

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Amber πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ •

I am a fan of Jetbrains Mono as a font, it's ligatures are fantastic.
As far as plugins, I don't have much other than some Rust-related stuff.
I have my terminal set to zsh, for convenience.
I am still looking for a good theme.

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Daniel Waller (he/him) •

Oh they have ligatures as well? I never realized that...always just installed FiraCode. I'll need to check that out :D

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Andrew Baisden •

I am exactly the same I did not know either I just defaulted to FiraCode. I will do the same it looks cool.

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Yaroslav Demenskiy • • Edited

Hello! I use my own theme Mokka. It's developed especially for JavaScript and React development. Also, there is support for Python and PHP.

Theme: Mokka;
Font: Cascadia Code;
Icons: Material Icon Theme.

My theme Mokka is available on the marketplace: marketplace.visualstudio.com/items...

Mokka preview

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Daniel Waller (he/him) •

Ooh good work! Haven't seen Mokka before. I really like the soft color pallete and clear design goal of minimizing visual clutter. Will definitely try it out :)

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Jamie Smith • • Edited

Theme:
SynthWave '84 – Gimme that sweet neon glow.

Icons:
vscode-icons – If it's good enough for the Goonies, it's good enough for me.

Font:
Fira Code – The first alternative-to-default font I ever used. Nostalgia.

Extensions:
GitLens – Must have
Dash – Use it all the time to look-up documentation
Snake Trail – Completely useless but something feels off without it

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Daniel Waller (he/him) •

Wooah Synthwave Looks glorious 😍🀯

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Sooraj (PS) • • Edited

Here's my vs code setup :)

Theme: Ayu Dark Bordered
Icons: Material Icon Theme

I like this setup because of the darker background and the contrasting code colors and this makes the code clearly visible.

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Gulajava Ministudio •

Here my VS Code setup, feel free to try.

Theme : Mayukai Theme (Mirage and Mono)
Icon : Material Icon Theme
Font : Iosevka Mayukai

VSCode11

VSCode11

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Paritosh Pundir • • Edited

I try to keep things very simple.

Sometimes dark and sometimes light.
Sidebar on the right and mostly hidden.
Font - Fira Code
Theme - Github light and dark


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Daniel Waller (he/him) •

Yes! Github Light ftw I love how clean it looks

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Gabriel Antunes • • Edited

Theme: Palenight
Icons: Material Icon
Font: Cascadia Code

Alt my Vscode Setup