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My VS Code setup - Making the most out of VS Code

Deepu K Sasidharan on July 17, 2019

Originally published at deepu.tech. Visual Studio Code(I like the sound of VS Code better), I just love it. It is my primary code editor. I alway...
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Jamie

If your serious about using Code for authoring markdown files, I cannot recommend the docs authoring pack enough. Its a "metapackage" of sorts which brings a bunch of different markdown extensions together.

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Deepu K Sasidharan

Cool. I'll check it out

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Deepu K Sasidharan

It looks more specific for Doc specific markdown, I think I already use some of the individual plugins though. Will try later to see if its better than the one I currently use.

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tarifa-man

Hello dear Deepu - wow i am really impressed. You are great!!!

This text is outstanding great and overwhelming - i appreciate your text it is very very good .
i am happy to read your text - i like it very much. Can you give us more hints to run VSCode or VSCodium on mx-linux:

cf : I use VSCode daily and it is widely used, i am shocked it is not in stable repo. Please add VSCode to the package list.

deepu . just see more here: forum.mxlinux.org/viewtopic.php?f=...
you are invited to add your ideas to the thread.

dear . well we look forward to hear form you -regards tarifa

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Heiko Kanzler 🇪🇺 • Edited

I thought I am the only one. I am a long term IntelliJ User (almost exclusively Grails for over a decade now) and started recently in the JS (seriously) and I love VS Code. I even use it, like you for smaller things with my Grails Code Base. In fact, i haven’t tried an JS/Angular Project with IntelliJ...

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Deepu K Sasidharan

Once you go code you don't go back

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Aritra Mukherjee

GitLens is an amazing extension for collaborative projects.

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Deepu K Sasidharan

I had that, but then disabled since I wasn't using it much

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Bertrand Croq

No love for ungit?

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Deepu K Sasidharan

Never tried it. Looks interesting will check it out

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Adam Crockett 🌀

Alphabetical sorter. The simplest most versatile extension you will miss if it's gone. alphabetical-sorter

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Deepu K Sasidharan

It looks cool!

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Adam Crockett 🌀

Fix those, imports, consts, CSS rules, XML and JSON props, nice and easy. 100% a must have.

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Fulton Browne

Thanks love it!

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Anthony Lio • Edited

Great thanks!
Just had to replace "/usr/bin/zsh" per "/bin/zsh" (on osx).

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Trond Ulseth

Many good ones here, also some I’ve not seen yet, so thanx for the list. I also love Indent Rainbow: marketplace.visualstudio.com/items...

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Deepu K Sasidharan

Thank you

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Dennis Vash

For react developing, check out this extensions pack: marketplace.visualstudio.com/items...

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Aaron Gray

Great but no notes on how to use some of the extensions

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krutikkhatri

You can also use yamlonline.com/ for the yaml validator as well as yaml converter to json,csv,xml,base64 also for beautify and minify YAML.

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Deepu K Sasidharan

Oops thanks. I'll correct it soon

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krutikkhatri

Hii
You can also use onlinejsontools.org/ for json validator,beautify,minify,xml,yaml,CSV,bson,plain text,base64,tsv.
Do checkout this site!