DEV Community

Most underrated plugins for VS code

Saurabh Sharma on July 29, 2018

I see that most of the useful plugins are niche specific and highly underrated. For me, that are dbankier.vscode-quick-select and bierner.emojise...
Collapse
 
equinusocio profile image
Mattia Astorino • Edited

On mac you don’t need the emoji suggestion you add emoji with a keyboard shortcut. Ctrl+cmd+space

Collapse
 
aspittel profile image
Ali Spittel

The emoji suggestion is so much faster though!! I used Opt+cmd+space for a long time, and much prefer :emojiname:

Collapse
 
akulbe profile image
Aaron Kulbe

I thought it was Win + . (rather than ;)

?

Collapse
 
itsjzt profile image
Saurabh Sharma

Windows here

Collapse
 
d1p profile image
Debashis Dip

In the latest version of windows 10 you can input emoji by pressing Win + ;

Thread Thread
 
laughinglove profile image
Josh

Wow I didn't know that! Thanks 😀

Thread Thread
 
itsjzt profile image
Saurabh Sharma

I don't know why but doesn't work for me.

Thread Thread
 
laughinglove profile image
Josh

Did you try the command Win + ; While typing in a text box?

When you do that the emoji box comes up 👌

Thread Thread
 
itsjzt profile image
Saurabh Sharma

does it work in win 10 1709

Thread Thread
 
d1p profile image
Debashis Dip

it's available from version 1803

Thread Thread
 
itsjzt profile image
Saurabh Sharma

ohhh
need an update

Thread Thread
 
maxart2501 profile image
Massimo Artizzu

Keep in mind that the exact combination depends on the keyboard layout. It may vary if you don't have an international keyboard.

Thread Thread
 
itsjzt profile image
Saurabh Sharma

I think its international keyboard.

Collapse
 
rajadigopula profile image
Raj Adigopula
Collapse
 
mattmattv profile image
Matthieu Vion

I find the richie5um2.vscode-sort-json very useful (maybe I'm suffering OCD !)

Not sure it is underrated but Shan.code-settings-sync is very useful when you work on more than one computer.

To finish, jebbs.plantuml being able to render my diagrams in real time, side by side in VSCode is neat !

Collapse
 
igorshubovych profile image
Igor Shubovych

Settings Sync is not underrated. It has 1m+ downloads

Collapse
 
ninety9knights profile image
Momo N

This may sound ignorant but here we go... How do you code using emojis? I don't understand. What language are you guys coding in?

Collapse
 
hillshum profile image
Hilton Shumway

It's probably for documentation, commit messages, and user-facing strings mostly.

That said, Swift does allow emoji variable names.

Collapse
 
lexlohr profile image
Alex Lohr

For me, those are

  • ryanluker.vscode-coverage-gutters
  • rid9.datetime (can't have enough clocks on your screen)
  • howardzuo.vscode-git-tags
  • pnp.polacode (helpful for creating presentations)
Collapse
 
rafistrauss profile image
rafistrauss

Super useful extension for seeing the performance impact of CSS manipulations: marketplace.visualstudio.com/items...