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P.S.: It's a bit out of date, but here's my VS Code setup for those interested.

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Lucas Bittencourt

VS Live Share! It's awesome.

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Aaron Powell

Yes! Live Share is amazing!

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Edison Augusthy

Peacok -- it surprise with colored sidebars

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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.

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Nick Taylor

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

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John Papa

Meh. He’s ok.

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John Papa

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

Enjoy!

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John Papa

Glad you like it!

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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.

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Tom Byrer

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

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dreamchild7

I love winter is coming theme and prettier.

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Aravind Kamarajugadda

I am using nordic which is super cool

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Hugo Torzuoli • Edited

Using Shades of Purple theme, with Material Icon, looks awesome! ESLint, Vetur and Angular Snippets for the programming part.

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Ahmad Awais ⚡️

🦄 Shades of Purple :) woohoo!

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Nick Taylor

Didn't your theme hit like 1 million downloads or something with about 1/2 million installs? 💯👏

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Ahmad Awais ⚡️ • Edited

🎉🎉🎉 Yes. So happy about it. And my VSCode Power User course hit 5,000 devs. Both huge milestones for a full-time open source developer like me. :)

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Hugo Torzuoli

You did an awesome work on this theme!

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Ahmad Awais ⚡️

That's very kind of you to say! 🙌

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Simranjit Singh

EasySass.. it's amazing.

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K-Sato

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

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Garrett Weems

do it. no brainer

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Nick Taylor

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Vicente G. Reyes

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

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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.

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Jan Schröder • Edited

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

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Ahmad Awais ⚡️ • Edited

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

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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.

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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.

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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...

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Alfredo Roca

EditorConfig for VSCode

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Gael Roussel

Addons I really like:

  • Project Manager
  • Todo+ / Todo Highlight
  • Tralling spaces
  • Rainbow brackets

btw, that addon do you use for the colored line ?