VS Code, your new best friend?

Daniel Bark 📦 — Wed, 10 Jun 2020 09:07:54 +0000

VS Code does a lot, and it does it well. I spend most of my workday and lots of my free time with it. Almost more than my phone I would guess. This makes it worth the time to explore how to customize it and find all the hidden gem features, built in or in the package ecosystem. Lets get into it...

Fonts

There are many great fonts including, Fira Code, Hack, Monaco. Do you prefer Monospaced fonts for the alignment or enjoy the look och a more stylized font? An important consideration is do you want Ligatures in your code?

Colors

Color themes are one of the most effective parts to play around with to make the editor your own.

⚙️ -> Color Theme

You can even have glowing text. Below image showcases the Synthwave 84' theme with the Neon Dreams Glow enabled

Formatting

Prettier has gained a lot of traction and once you start to use it you realize that formatting code is easier than ever. You do however need to decide if the formatter should run on demand, on save or as often as on each character typed.

Git

VS Code has a bunch of git tools that you could use if you are not a git CLI purist.

Debugging

VS Code is a very competent debugger and i have personally debugged Go, Python, Node, Deno and C# inside VS Code to mention a few.

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VS Code, your new best friend?

Fonts

Colors

Formatting

Git

Debugging

Thanks for reading and happy coding!