I find that personalizing my IDE helps me enjoy the time I spend using it more. I want to share that same spark of joy with you all, and have been searching for and testing out the best extensions to download. And many of these will help you be more productive.
Indent Rainbow
Indent Rainbow is a great tool to add color and productivity to your setup. It can also help serve as an alignment check for your indentation. Each indentation is given an alternating rainbow color.
Bracket Pair Colorizer
This will add rainbow colors to brackets, and matching brackets will have the same color. This extension has saved me a number of times when looking for a missing or extra bracket.
Colorize
Colorize visualizes color variables by highlighting them with their color value. This is a handy timesaver for translating hex codes and variable names.
Peacock
Peacock provides optional window colors. It is great for managing multiple workspaces. It can be easy to forget which workspace you are in when jumping between similar windows, but not with the bright colors provided by Peacock. You can even customize workspace colors.
VSCode Icons
Adding icons can help when navigating through your folders. VSCode Icons has an extensive library of icons matching a variety of file types.
For example, you can easily see if you are selecting a TypeScript file or a JavaScript file based on the icon. It also adds an extra touch of color and detail to folder structures.
TODO Highlight
TODO Highlight will customize your list of TODO comments and make them pop with color. It can be easy to overlook commented out code, but not with this extension, as it is difficult to overlook text that is bright orange.
TODO and FIXME are built in keywords. You'll have the option to customize the color of these and add additional keywords.
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