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Top 10 Visual Studio Code extensions you need to install

Chris Bongers on September 01, 2020

I'm making a big guess here, but you are using Visual Studio Code right? It's an amazing Microsoft product (ahem: only one...) and we all love it. ...
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Rob OLeary

Hi Chris,

I might give Tab Nine a go!

VS Code has native auto-import settings, you may not need the auto-import extension. You can check out the article below for the details.

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Chris Bongers

Hey Rob,

Nice article, I do find it doesn't import everything, might have been updated now.
But for instance Typescript it didn't auto import before.

But VSC keeps adding the best plugins native so they're going so fast, hard to keep up haha.

Thanks for adding this though!

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Madza • Edited

Fire list man πŸ”₯πŸ”₯
Finally I've came across extension with browser preview (all-in-one-screen), I preferred to code all the front-end in Codepen or CodeSandbox before for that reason. Will try it out πŸ‘
Also, TabNine seems to be so intuitive πŸ’―

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Chris Bongers

Hey man, yeah indeed the browser preview is amazing πŸ”₯
As for TabNine, I only found this recently, installed it, and loving it! 🀟

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Corentin Girard

I tried TabNine for some weeks and I thought it was great.

But I found out that I was always double checking that what the extension guessed was actually what I wanted.

Although I was amazed the 75% of the time it guessed exactly what I wanted to write, I still needed to choose the good guess.

It's like you are not coding but watching someone learn how to code for you...

So in the end, I find it quite counterproductive. I prefer having a clean autosuggestion list and be sure I can trust every item of it.

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Chris Bongers

Hmm, i see what you are saying, the actual intelisense for each language are way easier for sure.

I'm just blown away so far, by how good it works on actual writings.
Do see how it can become counter productive.

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Lakshya Singh

Tab nine is really heavy man ☹️ you can't run vscode and browser at the same time the system hangs

Ps: 8 gb ram and i7 H

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Chris Bongers

Ah darn sorry to here, It's been working on my macbook fine, but I've read more people complain about it.
Such a shame, because it's wonderful to use.

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Lakshya Singh

Yeah it just makes it so quick to write code

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FoodBite

Tabnine seems amazing

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Chris Bongers

Its bizarre! Some people do mention it being very heavy and a bit distracting.
For me it works perfect

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Sattwik Sahu

But TabNine requires you to install Tensorflow. I got an old machine that has the C++ Redistributable corrupt πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚ so I can't use it. Rest of the plugins are dope πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘ŒπŸ‘

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Chris Bongers

You don't need tensorflow, unless it's pre installed on a mac.

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Camilo Martinez • Edited

Bracket Pair Colorizer has a new version from the same author with breaking changes.

marketplace.visualstudio.com/items...

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Chris Bongers

Hi Camilo,

Thanks! Wasn't aware it was released already! thank you for the addition! 🀟