What are your favorite VS Code extensions?

VS Code extensions let you add languages, debuggers, and tools to your installation to support your development workflow.

Some of my favs include Settings Sync, Prettier, ESLint, Bracket Pair Colorizer, Code Spell Checker, Better Comments, Path Intellisense, Live Server, ES7, React, Redux & GraphQL Snippets, GitLens, Markdown All in One.

Curious to see what are your favorites?

Comments

[Bhanu Sunka]

I found one really cool vscode theme named Jellyfish-x-retro 🚀🚀
Do checkout: marketplace.visualstudio.com/items...

[Ian Pride]

TDLR; - GlassUI and Markdown All In One.

Other than all the normal extensions for the long list of languages I use, my favorite is GlassUI and like you said Markdown All In One. I watch lots of videos (that I don't have to pay too much attention too) while coding and can glance through VSCODE if I want to see what someone is talking about. I have the luxury of being a so-called "hobbyist" so I don't have deadlines to meet lol. Markdown is just awesomely one of the best extensions there. Especially the auto generation of Table of contents.

Almost all of the other extensions are more of a slight convenience for which I can take or leave as I tend to usually write my own types of automation scripts or bins that essentially do the same thing and I only end up using other people's extensions until I get around to writing my own. I do use the TODO extension in VSCODE, but again, I can take it or leave it because I've written several of my own "TODO" programs in various environments and langauges.

Having said that; I only use GlassUI in Linux because in Windows I have written my own universal sort of version of transparent windows in AutoHotkey; for which, I have script and compiled bins (as compiled as AHK can get lol).

[Christophe Avonture]

"Settings Sync" is, since months, no more needed; synching is now part of VSCode core (code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/...).

[Madza]

Did not know that! 😉 Tbh, that was my initial reaction when I first used the extension, wondering why VSCode did not come with a built-in sync feature, to begin with 😉

[Mikhail Raevskiy]

Great time-saving extensions if you are used to working a lot with Markdown:

• Polacode
• Markdown Lint
• Markdown All in One
• Grammarly for VS Code
• Rewrap

[Madza]

Grammarly for VS Code? 😮 Been using Code Spell Checker all the time, time to check it out 😉

[Curtis Lawrence]

Gremlins tracker for Visual Studio Code, has come in handy, especially if you've pasted code snippets with smart quotes, or similar "smart" formatting.

It recently helped me debug a problem with content on a site that had various zero-width and non-breaking space characters that was causing problems.

[Camilo Martinez]

I think I have a lot for different scenarios.

VSCode - Essentials

Camilo Martinez ・ Sep 27 '18 ・ 5 min read

#vscode #productivity #webdev

[Madza]

Exactly, if you dive into the specifics, the choice of extensions heavily depends 😉
Tho there are still some extensions that apply to every dev, regardless of the niche 😉

[Ronan D'Souza]

I use quite a few of the extensions you mentioned. One of my favourite not listed is REST Client. Make API requests right from VS Code rather than using an external API client 😄

[Madza]

I usually use Postman for this, and yeah, sometimes get tired of switching screens or splitting the view 😃😃

[K M H Mubin]

I mostly use those you mention.
I also use Code Time and Waka Time for tracking my time on each project.

[Madza]

I use Waka time too, great for tracking the time you spend coding 😉

[AlenPaulVarghese]

1. Bracket Pair Colorizer (CoenraddS)
2. Indent-rainbow (oderwat)
3. Data Preview (Random Fractals Inc.)
4. Pylance ( even though I does't agree with closed source pylance is a good tool )

[Mike]

My favorite are

• Beautify
• Better Comments
• Bracket Pair Colorizer
• Code Spell Checker
• Live Sass Compiler
• Live Server