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Top 10 VSCode Extensions to Supercharge Your Workflow

Mukhil Padmanabhan on November 21, 2024

As a developer, being productive is crucial to our success. I happened to stumble upon some amazing VSCode extensions that I wasn’t using to their ...
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Paras Bansal

Tabnine? That's way outdated. Isn't it?

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Wizard

Idk why still people uses Path Intellisense, VS code already provides this
Is there anything extra feature in path intellisense that is useful!!?

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k1lgor

I use Thunder for API tests

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Jose Ignacio Santa Cruz G.

If your workflow is memory sensitive I would suggest avoiding gitlens as it's a real memory hog.

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Толик • Edited

these are absolute essentials!

I would say, further productivity boost came from

  • vscode vim extension and rewriting navigation shortcuts to vim keys (e.g. cycling through global search results, quickfix suggestions, quick open entries with ctrl+j or ctrl+k)
  • configuring terminal (and git) aliases and extensions e.g. autocomplete from terminal history or syntax highlighting (including terminal comand highlighting: green if it exists, red if does not)
  • running tmux from vscode terminal (utilizing tmux windows instead of tabs in a separate terminal)
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ANIRUDDHA ADAK

Absolutely incredible! 😻.

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Amit rana

Informative

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Juan Camilo Vega Nieto

Git Tree Compare
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Raju Molla

Informative. Thanks man

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Philip

VSCode extensions like Prettier, GitLens, and Live Server can significantly boost coding efficiency. While REST Client is useful for basic API testing, it falls short on advanced features. For a more robust API testing solution, consider EchoAPI, which offers comprehensive debugging and automated testing tools to streamline your workflow.

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Mukhil Padmanabhan

@philip_zhang_854092d88473 Thank you for sharing. You are absolutely right, REST Client is a great tool for some quick and lightweight API testing directly within VSCode but it might lack in more advanced workflows. EchoAPI seems like a good alternative. Thanks for the suggestion, I will definitely give it a try! It’s always awesome to learn about tools that can improve our workflow. Thanks again!

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Philip

Most Welcome! 😊 You may access to Echoapi through this link echoapi.com

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Chris Custer

This sounds more like an AI response than anything

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john

Great article

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Timur

Why on that site all posts are duplicated from other sources or its silly advices, idk 😅 Im as web dev and half or more of extensions is not helpful and that problem on the each of articles. Sorry for that dude maybe it my bad or these articles for juniors, idk😕

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ben

i too use the internet

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Apostol Faliagas

The Prettier code formatter works only with JavaScript, HTML, etc. Coding in not only JavaScript.

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Hossain Muhammad Palin

Postman better from others api testing client.

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Lars Rye Jeppesen

Postman is infinitely better