DEV Community

Cover image for Matt’s Favorite Visual Studio Code Extensions

Matt’s Favorite Visual Studio Code Extensions

Matty Stratton on December 20, 2017

Back in October, I decided I was going to “force” myself to use Visual Studio Code as my only editor instead of Atom (to be clear, I also continu...
Collapse
 
ben profile image
Ben Halpern

Damn I love posts like this. Out of curiosity, why is "Open in GitTower" a vscode extension? Seems like it doesn't really have much to do with vscode directly. Is it just because installing an extension is a simple approach or am I missing something?

Collapse
 
mattstratton profile image
Matty Stratton

Well, for me at least, I might be working on a git project in VS Code, and then realize that I need something with a bit more "oomph" than the git GUI in Code...so I can just open the Command Palette and choose "Open in GitTower" to open that repo in Tower.

Granted, if I have the Terminal open, I can just type in tower . and get the same effect...

Collapse
 
ben profile image
Ben Halpern

Ooooh I actually completely misread what its functionality was. Carry on 🙃

Collapse
 
chiangs profile image
Stephen Chiang

Thanks for these!

The extensions I can't do without:

Angular Essentials - Collection of extentions for Angular development.

Prettier - Formatting.

Settings Sync - Saves editor's settings to a GitHub gist.

Collapse
 
alephnaught2tog profile image
Max Cerrina

I've been toying withs witching from Atom to VS Code just for kicks, and if that Brackets extension does what I think it does, I am pretty much already sold! I wonder if I can find a Portable version of it (for class).......

Collapse
 
ben profile image
Ben Halpern

I feel like Microsoft is doing great work with this and I trust that VS Code will keep impressing in the future.

Collapse
 
damcosset profile image
Damien Cosset

Definitely getting some of those first thing tomorrow morning!

Collapse
 
askanison4 profile image
Aaron

Oooh, I'm definitely grabbing that brackets extension!

I'm a huge fan of the Angular extensions - template intellisense, code analysis before transpile; it's all gold.

I've also created an extension to pretty up my formatting some, if anyone is interested:
Better Comments

Collapse
 
mattstratton profile image
Matty Stratton

Oh wow! Your extension looks AWESOME.

Collapse
 
pzelnip_84 profile image
Adam Parkin

Not a fan of having to supply my Github password for the gist extension. I tried just entering the token under "gist.oauthtoken" in my settings, but was still prompted to enter my Github username & password.

I also use the settings sync extension, which would mean that my Gist posting key would end up in a private gist. Private gists are not really secure (anyone with the link can view), so that's a bit of a security concern (anyone who saw my VS code settings gist would then get the ability to post gists on my behalf).

Collapse
 
nickytonline profile image
Nick Taylor

Nice list Matt. Markdown PDF looks great. For the git extensions, I'd recommend the git extension pack, marketplace.visualstudio.com/items.... I believe it contains all the git extensions you mention. Extension packs became available earlier this year. I can't remember when though. Also, the Node extension pack is solid too.

I should probably convert my gist of my VS Code setup to an article on dev.to. Here it is if you're interested, vscode.iamdeveloper.com.

Collapse
 
mattstratton profile image
Matty Stratton

Hey Nick - your link to your gist worked yesterday, but I'm getting a 404 today :(

Collapse
 
nickytonline profile image
Nick Taylor

Yeah, my bad. I moved my blog over to Netlify from now.sh but my redirects are not working. I'll get it sorted out today. For now I converted it to a post on my blog, iamdeveloper.com/my-visual-studio-... . I'll post it on dev.to at some point... just don't want to steal your thunder for the moment. ⚡ 😉

Thread Thread
 
nickytonline profile image
Nick Taylor

Matt, the redirects are working again.

Collapse
 
cristinasolana profile image
Cristina Solana

Thanks for the list, the Bracket Colorizer and Wakatime are gold. On a side note, I recently had to uninstall: Intellisense for CSS Class Names. It was breaking Emmet. :/

Collapse
 
osaywell profile image
Oliver Saywell • Edited

Nice list!

For anyone using VSCode for PHP development this series made VSCode so much more user friendly for me!

Collapse
 
ex_jedi profile image
Mårk Phoenix

Git Lens is a world of wonder. Thank you!

Collapse
 
jvarness profile image
Jake Varness

Dan Tuppeny made probably the best Dart extension. Loving using Visual Studio Code for code!