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5 Useful VSCode Extensions for Live Coding

💾 bun9000 on October 17, 2019

Live-streaming a development process introduces some unique challenges. Aside from the obvious challenge of edutaining a large group of people (for...
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Juan Carlos
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💾 bun9000

These are peak! Giving indent highlighter and trailing white space a test run tonight on stream. Thx for the suggestions!

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💾 bun9000

I've updated the article to add a few of your suggestions as honorable mentions. Thanks! :D

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Evan BOISSONNOT

Hi

Thanks a lot for this great article.
A update about Live Share : this is yet buggy extension. I use it a lot for my training courses, and my students and me have seen some hard buggy (for example : showing good directory list, ...)

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💾 bun9000

Oh no! Still buggy? That's a bummer. I know it used to be REALLY bad.. and it's definitely gotten better. I haven't run into any issues myself recently, but if it's not good enough for training/courses, that's a big red flag. Hopefully they take of these issues soon! It otherwise has so much potential!

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Rich Somerfield

(Self promotion..)

Snake Trail: marketplace.visualstudio.com/items...

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💾 bun9000

WHOA!! This is awesome! I might try this out during a stream. Ty for the suggestion and contribution to the extension community! <3

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Rich Somerfield

Thanks. :)

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💾 bun9000

I've updated the article to add your extension as an honorable mentions. Thanks! :D

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Fernando B 🚀

Awesome tips! I got mad respect for live coders!

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laxcivo

Preview on Web Browser -perfect for html, css development-

Bookmarks

Night Owl

Vscode pdf

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💾 bun9000

😍 Bookmarks!! Such great extensions!

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Mustapha Aouas

Thanks for sharing, I love the Comment Anchors and the TODO+ :)

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Jesús David Chicano

Nice post. Thank you!

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Levan Katsadze

Maybe you will also like the VSCode extension "Blockman". It highlights nested code blocks based on curly/square/round brackets, html/xml tags and Python/Yaml indentation. (I am the author of Blockman).
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