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What Are Some of Your Favourite Visual Studio Code Extensions?

ifrah on May 04, 2024

Hi everyone! So I've been using co-pilot for the nearly a year and it's been a real game changer for me. I definitely feel more productive and wor...
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Paulo Henrique •

There is only one that everyone should install marketplace.visualstudio.com/items...

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ifrah •

My days of talking to a rubber duck are finally over! Always wanted some company coding on those long days 🤣

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Paweł Ciosek •

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Swaraj Singh ⚛️ •

Now that's what I was looking for 🙌🏻

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Christophe Colombier • • Edited

About great extensions you didn't already mentions, I would recommend using the following ones:

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ErrorLens turbo-charges language diagnostic features by making diagnostics stand out more prominently, highlighting the entire line wherever a diagnostic is generated by the language and also prints the message inline.

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Indent-Rainbow

A simple extension to make indentation more readable

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  • And something that was an extension and now a native settings

code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2021/0...

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{
    "editor.bracketPairColorization.enabled": true,
    "editor.guides.bracketPairs":"active"
}
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ifrah •

Thanks for the list. These look great!

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Alexander •

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Ridwan Yunus •

Broooooooo, these extensions are many

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Alexander • • Edited

I just forget to delete some of them🤣🤣. But most of time I use a lot of themes

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Rayyan Nafees •

Use VScode Profiles to manage diff extensions for diff projects

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Christophe Colombier •

About GitHub copilot, did you try Codeium ?

I like it too.

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ifrah •

Not yet, I've heard a lot of great things about Codeium. I can't really fault Copilot too much yet to consider switching. I'm still on the look out for a free solid alternative though!

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Rayyan Nafees •

The Only great thing about codium is that it's free lol

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Christophe Colombier •

Haha. Touché

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Hui🌻 •

A new tool called MarsCode is free now, maybe u can have a try.dev.to/dancemove_marscode/marscode...

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ifrah •

Thanks! looks interesting

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Armstrong Omhonria •

Thank you. Your post brought in so many discussion. That makes the topic more interesting.

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Igor Zinin •

while coding in my flow i often swear aloud and do not want anybody to hear that. It would be nice to have AI companion who would listened my speech and surprised me sometime with reply 🤣

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Artem Sapegin •

Color Highlight

Highlights colors in the code.

Color Highlight

Code Spell Checker

Spellchecker for Markdown, comments, variable names, functions, etc.

Code Spell Checker

Code Spell Checker

Emoji Console Log

Inserts console.log() statement with a random emoji and a variable (object, function, etc.) under your cursor to make debugging JavaScript and TypeScript code easier.

Emoji Console Log

And Squirrelsong Light theme.

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Christophe Colombier •

About spell/style checker, I recommend using also

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Based on github.com/crate-ci/typos

Typos and codespell work pretty well together. They will often provide same typos, but it's OK. But using them both will also raise issues one wouldn't.

For style checking I also use

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And

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It helps me to solve many grammar issues

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Artem Sapegin •

Thanks! I use LanguageTool as a standalone app, going to try these extensions...

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Best Codes •

This one has been BY FAR the handiest for me!
codeium.com
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It is like GitHub Copilot but free. It has an in-editor AI chat, AI refactor, awesome AI autocomplete, and more!

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Best extension I've ever found.

Other than that, I just use Prettier and some other formatting tools.

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Stefan Schneider •

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Christophe Colombier •

Contextive seems interesting. I have never heard about it

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Silver Phoenix •

One of my favorite extensions.

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James Luterek •

VSCode REST - marketplace.visualstudio.com/items...

Less known, but very useful.

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Paimonchan •

i would recommend using this theme
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Ijay •

I like codeium AI but there are many auto-completion tools you can check out: freecodecamp.org/news/ai-tools-to-...
For more extension check Youtube.

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Christophe Colombier •

Thanks, I will have look

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Jeroen van Warmerdam •

Extension Update Reporter will give you a report of the extensions changelog when an extension is updated.
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Killbunny • • Edited

Other than the many awesome extensions many people has posted in comments,
For productivity, Highlight-words makes looking for text on log files so easy. And for fun, I can't live without background anymore

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hiruthicSha • • Edited

This is by-far the most used extension. Changing multiple terms while preserving its casing.

Multi Cursor Case Preserve

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puneetsingh802 •

Here are some additional extensions -

Path Autocomplete
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Code Spell Checker
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Mordechai Meisels •

NPM Studio

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Michael Miranda •

Shameless plug 😅 marketplace.visualstudio.com/items...