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Top VS Code Extensions to Enhance Your Experience - February 2023

As a software engineer, it's essential to have the right tools in your arsenal to make your work easier, faster and more efficient. Visual Studio Code, or VSCode, is a popular source-code editor that provides a lot of extensions that can boost your development productivity. In this blog post, we'll take a look at the top VSCode extensions that you can use in February 2023 to enhance your development experience.

  1. Prettier
    Prettier is a code formatter that automatically formats your code according to a set of rules. It saves you time and eliminates the need to manually format your code, which can be tedious and error-prone. With Prettier, you can rest assured that your code is consistently formatted, and it's easy to integrate with VSCode.

  2. GitLens
    GitLens is an extension that helps you visualize Git information and history, including blame annotations, code lens, and more. With GitLens, you can easily view Git information directly in your VSCode editor, without having to switch to the command-line interface. This extension is particularly useful for developers who use Git regularly.

  3. Auto Close Tag
    Auto Close Tag is an extension that automatically closes HTML tags for you. This extension is especially useful for web developers who use HTML frequently. With Auto Close Tag, you can focus on writing code and let the extension handle the tedious task of closing tags.

  4. ES7 React/Redux/GraphQL/React-Native snippets
    ES7 React/Redux/GraphQL/React-Native snippets is an extension that provides code snippets for React, Redux, GraphQL and React Native. With these code snippets, you can save time and effort, as you don't have to write code from scratch. This extension is particularly useful for developers who work with React, Redux, GraphQL and React Native.

  5. Bracket Pair Colorizer
    Bracket Pair Colorizer is an extension that color-codes matching brackets in your code. This makes it easier to identify which bracket matches with which, especially in large code files. With Bracket Pair Colorizer, you can save time and reduce the risk of errors caused by mismatched brackets.

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Sebastian Fritsch

Bracket Pair Colorizer is already build in VSCode, just turn it on:

  • Search for the setting: bracketPair
  • Click the checkbox to turn on the bracket pair colorization