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Migrating from Eclipse to VS Code? Master These Java Developer Shortcuts

pravinpreneur — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 19:44:46 +0000

In my last post, I explained why switching from Eclipse to VS Code can boost your Java development productivity and provided step by step guide to modernizing the Java development environment using VS Code and WSL2.

I’ve been thrilled with the positive feedback, especially how you’ve reported increased efficiency and not facing memory issues! However, some of you, Eclipse veterans, asked about how to use Eclipse shortcuts in VS Code.

While an Eclipse key binding plugin exists, it won’t truly unlock the full potential of VS Code’s native shortcuts. These shortcuts are specially designed to enhance your coding speed, and mastering them will offer long-term benefits, including portability to your colleagues’ IDEs.

Based on my experience, I’ve compiled a list of essential Java shortcuts in Eclipse and their equivalent VS Code counterparts. Read the full article to get the full list of shortcuts here:Migrating from Eclipse to VS Code? Master These Java Developer Shortcuts

How to Modernize Java Development Environment using VS Code and WSL2 to Improve Productivity

pravinpreneur — Sun, 10 Dec 2023 10:30:51 +0000

Since 2007, I’ve been writing Java code in Eclipse. Eclipse is a pretty solid IDE for Java based development and I enjoy writing backend code in eclipse a lot. But now in modern development world we need to use several plugins to write code efficiently and it’s not limited to backend side code. We need to write code in frontend technologies too. I started feeling urge to switch from eclipse as two things really annoyed me. Slowness and frontend(Angular, React, Vue and many more) development support. Whenever I start eclipse it takes around 30 seconds to load workspace, another 30 seconds to load plugins, doing indexing and it blocks me from writing code. But frontend development support and speed isn’t everything. I've written full article about this on medium, use below link to read full article: [https://medium.com/@pravinpreneur/how-to-modernize-java-development-environment-using-vs-code-and-wsl2-to-improve-productivity-1c9681390170]