What are your favorite VS Code productivity extensions?

VS code has become so feature-rich in built-in settings, you should always double check if you really need the extension you have in mind:

VS Code: You don't need that extension

Rob OLeary ・ Aug 5 '20 ・ 7 min read

#webdev #vscode #productivity #tips

We have also witnessed the features of many great extensions being baked in, like Emmet, for example.

Some of the best extensions I use to increase productivity include: TabNine, Prettier and Bracket Pair Colorizer.

Share you favorite productivity extensions below 👇

Comments

[Alex Bdet]

For themes, Dracula has to be my favourite, dark theme but still colorful, lovely on the eyes !

For extensions, Tabnine is starting to feel like a must have, AI powered autocompletion that predicts the code you'll type based on your project and the analysis of other projects.

[Michael Andreuzza]

wanna test my theme? almost 8k Users are liking it 😀

wvsc.dev

[Alex Bdet]

I'll give it a try, thanks for sharing !

[Michael Andreuzza]

Sounds great, feedback is more than welcome!

[Madza]

Thanks for the share, looks nice 🙏❤

[Michael Andreuzza]

You welcome!

[Tabnine]

We are very happy to hear that you're enjoying Tabnine, Alex!

[Madza]

Thanks for the share ❤🙏

[Cameron Thompson]

Here a few of my favorites

• Github Theme A very simple dark theme
• Live Server A fast and easy way to test local files
• MongoDB for VSCode A cool way to see what is in your DB, connects via connection string.

[Madza]

Always loved the UI of GitHub, tho Atom dark theme is still my fav.. I see you focus on MERN stack so the last one would be really handy 😉
Thanks for sharing these 👍😉

[Cameron Thompson]

I don't remember using Atom dark, I'll have to give it a go. The last extension was great when I was focusing on the MERN stack, but I am now using the JAMStack and am loving it!

[Madza]

I currently focus on JAMstack too 😉

[Cameron Thompson]

Will we be seeing some JAMstack content soon 🤔

[Christophe Avonture]

Bracket Pair is no more needed; see code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_6...

[Madza]

Thanks for the share, I guess I need to read their release docs after each upgrade which I rarely do 😀😀

[Christophe Avonture]

I'm trying to... Not the funny part of the day especially when you start vscode (and thus want to code 😉)

[Sanket Kheni]

This are not the best but something very less people talk about..

Checkpoint - for testing 2 different things in the same file - sometimes very handy

Bookmark - you already may know it can bookmark any line in vscode then you can easily navigate to that line.

[Madza]

Thanks for the share 🙏❤

[Pacharapol Withayasakpunt]

• Markdown Preview Enhanced
• Rainbow indent
• Prettier-VSCode (works even without package.json, nor node_modules)
• Comment tagged template (syntax highlighting, only relevant in JS/TS)

[Madza]

Thank you for sharing! Will check them out 😉👍

[amarhasic]

Tabnine, Highlight Matching Tags are less known but good.

[Madza]

Thanks for mentioning additional resources 👍😉

[BagasN]

Simple yet so effective.
Tabout

[Madza]

Thanks for the input 🙏❤