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VS Code Extensions I use Daily

Jakob Klamser on September 24, 2020

In this article, I want to go through my favorite Visual Studio Code Extensions that I use on a daily basis. Most of the time I use VS Code for wri...
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Rob OLeary

Hi Jakob,

There are settings for auto closing tags and auto renaming tags that you may be interested in. You can read more in my post.

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Dima

What about HTMLHint?

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Rob OLeary

I don't understand the question. What do you mean?

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Dima

Does VSC has same functionality?

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Rob OLeary

You need an extension for static analysis/linting HTML, there is a HTMLHint extension.

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Madza

Great list, tho I still find Auto Close Tag and Auto Rename Tag quite buggy when working with deeply nested code structures... Also, be careful with Quokka as you can mess up your code quickly if you use it in multiple places simultaneously.

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Mike Bybee • Edited

You don't need ACT or ART anymore. Both features are now available in VS Code, and that built in functionality may be fighting with the extensions.

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Jakob Klamser

Didn't know that about Quokka. I only use it for testing out stuff on the fly.
Never had problems with Auto Close Tag and Rename Tag... Strange

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Robert G. Schaffrath

I have quite a few that I use and sometimes wind up slowing VS Code startup due to the number of them (LOL):

Bracket Pair Colorizer 2
Color Highlight
ESLint
indent-rainbow
Node.js Modules Intellisense
Rewrap
TODO Highlight
TODO Parser
Visual Studio Intellicode
VS Color Picker

Extensions that I have active but use infrequently:

Bookmarks
Lorem ipsum
Spell Right
vscode-random

I have found Lorem ipsum to be useful for generating long password strings for protecting PDF documents generated with PDFKit.

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Jakob Klamser

That’s fine. Go ahead

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Yuriy Rymarchuk

Really nice suggestions, specially Quokka.js and Markdown Preview that I will absolutely install. Thank you!

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Akshat Sharma

to be honest Gitlens deserves to be listed..

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Anurag Sharma

Great article. Thanks for sharing

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Vamshi Suram

Thanks for sharing.. nice extensions.. will definitely try markdown enhanced..

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Chloe

I use quite a few of those Bracket Pair Colorizer 2 was a game changer when I discovered it not sure how I coped without it.

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Tim Bogdanov

Check out my darkmode theme that I created:
marketplace.visualstudio.com/items...

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Jason F

Quokka is awesome. I saw it used on a Fun Fun Function video a while back and was blown away.

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Joel Rozen

Thanks! I’ll give live server a god for sure, that seems extremely convenient when working with static sites!