What's an awesome VS Code extension you recently installed?

I just came across a simple yet awesome VS Code extension tonight care of Elijah Manor.

Basically it dims code that currently isn't selected. Here it is in action.

So what's an awesome VS Code extension you recently installed? 👨‍💻

P.S.: It's a bit out of date, but here's my VS Code setup for those interested.

My Visual Studio Code Setup

Nick Taylor ・ Dec 23 '17

#visualstudiocode #developertools #texteditor #vscode

Comments

[Edison Augusthy]

Peacok -- it surprise with colored sidebars

[Laurie]

This plugin has been such a revelation for me! It always drove me nuts to have multiple projects open and accidentally be in the wrong one. Especially during the period when I was porting my site from one framework to another and had both projects open. Too similar! I accidentally wrote in the wrong project way too often.

[John Papa]

That’s great to hear that you like it so much!

Enjoy!

[Nick Taylor]

I hear that @john_papa knows a bit about VS Code and web dev. 😉

[John Papa]

Meh. He’s ok.

[John Papa]

Glad you like it!

[Alex Patterson]

Couldn't live without it!

VSCode Extension Peacock

Alex Patterson ・ Aug 15 ・ 1 min read

#vscode #extension #webdev #peacock

[Saugat Rai]

I use Indent Rainbow with custom settings which I found on a medium blog long ago.
These are the custom settings:
"indentRainbow.colors": [
"rgba(16,16,16,0.2)",
"rgba(16,16,16,0.4)",
"rgba(16,16,16,0.6)",
"rgba(16,16,16,0.8)",
"rgba(16,16,16,1)"
],

[Tom Byrer]

Thanks! I saw that in a screenshot a few weeks ago & have been looking for it.

[Jack Harner 🚀]

Just curious, why do you have it fade back out?

[Saugat Rai]

Actually the settings are a little bit out of order. Thanks for noticing. :). I'll update it.

[Dylan Tientcheu]

I think it was my post, thank you
You can find it here.

medium.com/free-code-camp/here-are...

[Saugat Rai]

I should thank you instead. :)

[Ahmad Awais ⚡️]

🦄 Shades of Purple theme — I'm biased (I made it).

🎉 P.S. celebrating its crossing 1 Million devs.

[Simon Landry]

God I love it so much! Sadly I prefer using Atom 😭

[Ahmad Awais ⚡️]

Help me build one for Atom, or I can send in a discount coupon for my VSCode.pro course and convert you to a VSCode user :)

[Simon Landry]

I would be honored to help you convert it for Atom! 😃

[Ahmad Awais ⚡️]

Here's the link with VSCode theme and has all the colors in the README. Start there and let me know if you get stuck. github.com/ahmadawais/shades-of-pu...

[Nick Taylor]

You should give VS Code another try. 😉

[Diego López]

TabNine

• Indexes your whole project, reading your .gitignore to determine which files to index.
• Type long variable names in just a few keystrokes using the mnemonic completion engine.
• Zero configuration. TabNine works out of the box.
• Highly responsive: typically produces a list of suggestions in less than 10 milliseconds.

marketplace.visualstudio.com/items...

[Mark Li]

I am an Angular developer from China.

Here are the Angular extensions which I installed, all of them are awesome.

• Angular Inline
• Angular Language Service
• Angular Snippets
• Chrome Debugger
• Editor Config
• Material Icon Theme
• npm
• Peacock
• Prettier
• tslint
• Winter is Coming theme

The Code Spell Checker is helpful for Chinese developer, it can check the source code.

The last one is GitLens, I think you will love it after you install it.

[Tom Byrer]

Nice theme; first I heard about out. Yes, GitLens is helpful, especially if more than you touch the code.

[dreamchild7]

I love winter is coming theme and prettier.

[Lucas Bittencourt]

VS Live Share! It's awesome.

[Aaron Powell]

Yes! Live Share is amazing!

[sndrx]

WakaTime it's a recent and useful VS Code extension that I really enjoy. It tracks the time I spend coding every day and it really helps me see the progress that I make.

[K-Sato]

I've been very tempted to switch to VS code from Atom🤔.
Sorry, very random.

[Garrett Weems]

do it. no brainer

[Nick Taylor]

[Jack Harner 🚀]

Like everyone else is saying, do it! I started with Atom, Switched to Sublime text, and finally landed on VS Code. The built in git integration, and the built in terminal are life savers.

[Jan Schröder]

The build in terminal brought me to VS code. There was an extension for that in atom, but it was so sluggish.

[Omar Bahareth]

What I imagined Atom being as a text editor from Github is what made me stick to Atom for so long. Last year I realized that VS Code is the one realizing that vision. The ecosystem, the features, the DX (Developer Experience), and the performance are all what I imagined Atom eventually becoming but Visual Studio Code got there faster.

[Tom Byrer]

Unless there is a specific Atom plugin you need that is not available for VSCode. it is more than worth the effort.

Ecosystem is better, & since MicroSoft bought GitHub, I would not be surprised if Atom is back-burnered.

[Ahmad Awais ⚡️]

Do it. I can help! Shameless plug → VSCode.pro

[Vicente G. Reyes]

Do it! Vs code starts up a gazillion years faster than atom😂

[yev]

Not my recent but I always add it to all IDE I use: Power Mode. It's nothing useful but a visual flair (will probably even lag your system if you enabled all) but it makes me feel like a rockstar (even though I'm actually not).

[Adam Braun]

This isn't really an extension, but I use it very often.
I was looking for something equivalent to Sublime's panel focus, and there's a key map option, but it's not set to any key by default:
View: Maximize Editor Group and Hide Side Bar (shift + alt + enter)
View: Reset Editor Group Sizes (ctrl + shift + alt + enter)

[JeFFBlanco]

Great topic! 😎

Some nice hidden gems:

Extension	Desc
JSON Tree View	Handy way to navigate beefy JSON
Markdown Table Format	Markdown table formater
Calculate	Great for scratchpad / notes
Git Lens	Super charged Git functionailty
Highlight Bad Chars	Very helpful for pesky encoding issues
Sort Lines	Sort lines of text
Unique Lines	Keep unique lines of text; remove dupes
Time Converter	Converts various timestamps
Base 64	Base64 encode/decode

[Cubicle Buddha]

if you like calculate, you'll love Quokka

[Omar Bahareth]

Read Time

It shows an estimate for how long it takes to read your Markdown.

EDIT
Picture is taken from this tweet (I hope that's ok)
mobile.twitter.com/John_Papa/statu...

[Cubicle Buddha]

I use vscode-jest a lot these days so I can do some TDD and get the quick feedback I want. And if I want even faster feedback I use quokka since it lets me try out libraries quickly. TypeScript covers me with the documentation, but sometimes you just need to screw around (like when I'm trying out js-joda (which is awesome btw) )

[Romulo G Rodrigues]

I was amazed by the VSCode Python Debugger, you can run Python scripts more easily with breakpoints, variable analysis and a huge control and great data visualization, it is just too good to be ignored.

[Kostia Palchyk]

Vim
github.com/VSCodeVim/Vim

Not recently though, been using it for years 🙂