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Top VS Code Extensions Every Developer Should Use πŸ› 

Darsh Shah on December 03, 2020

Are you looking for the amazing VS Code extensions that will help you be more productive while coding? πŸ€” If you said Yes, then you're at the right...
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ppezaris

Solid list, especially GitLens and prettier. May I humbly suggest my own company's extension, CodeStream, for consideration. CodeStream is a swiss-army-knife of collaboration, but at it's core it provides code discussion as simple as "select the code, type your comment" with conversations shared through slack, ms teams, email, or just editor-to-editor.

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codestream.com/

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Darsh Shah

Hey Peter,

CodeStream seems a super awesome tool to work with. Will surely make use of it. Thanks for letting me know about it. Appreciate thatπŸ‘

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Brad Fincher

That looks great. Going to try this now.

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Tom Smykowski • Edited

Great work! Did you hear about Assistant?

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Darsh Shah

Never heard of it before! I've just checked it and it's a super cool tool & helpful extension one should try. Awesome work, Tomasz :)

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Tom Smykowski

Thanks! Chris Young wrote a great blog post with SQL rules he wrote, it is also worth checking out: dev.to/ronsoak/doing-the-impossibl...

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Darsh Shah

Will surely check it out. Thanks for sharing Tomasz πŸ‘

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Tom Smykowski

No problem, thanks for your post again

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Rob OLeary • Edited

I would be careful with Live Server. The performance of the extension is poor and slows down startup time of VS Code. I wrote about this topic in VS Code Performance – How to Optimize Visual Studio Code and Choose the "Best" Extensions if you'd like to know more. I was considering writing an alternative extension for this reason!

You can see the activation time highlighted below.

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Darsh Shah

Hey Rob,
Thanks for letting us know about the consequences. That article was really helpful. Let us know more about the alternate extension that you have mentioned. Will surely have a look at it.

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srikanth597 • Edited

Since you mentioned this No.4 Extension, for which I had some issues with auto importing doesn't work as shown in the GIF(ibb.co/68dfzwS).
Can someone help me? , I couldn't find what is the issue, I am using 1.50.1

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Darsh Shah

Hey Srikanth,
As you pointed, ES7 React/Redux/GraphQL/React-Native snippets Extension provides you some code snippets short-hands that you can use to code effectively. It won't help you in auto importing the missing components. You can visit the extension's details page and check out the features it allows you to make use of.

Otherwise, to solve your issue, I would recommend you to check out VS Code & auto import. I hope it will help you achieve what you wanted.

Thanks

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srikanth597

I have the Auto import extension as well.
What I want to achieve is that, whenever I use useState snippet from that ES7 etc extension, I want it to be added to React import line automatically.
It used to work exactly how I mentioned a month back, but it doesn't work for me lately, I have to manually import it.

So do u think I can solve this somehow

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Darsh Shah

Have you checked those links that I shared? Because that should resolve your issue. It should work as expected. If still, you face any issues I would recommend you to open an issue in a respected repository and the team can get back to you with the solution.

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Justin

Night Owl Theme :D

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Darsh Shah

Indeed! It's just awesome.

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Madza

Solid list, I use all of them, except theme (personal preference for Atom themes) πŸ˜‰πŸ‘

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Darsh Shah

Oh, that's great! :)

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Darsh Shah

I'm glad you found it helpfulπŸ‘