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Why VS Code? (Setup)

Tim Bogdanov on September 16, 2020

Why VS Code? VS Code is one of if not the most poplular free text editor on the market. In a survey done in 2019, over 4.9 million devel...
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Tadeu Barbosa

God post!
I used Sublime Text a time ago, like you. And then, when I meet vscode I moved to it.
For me, it's the best code editor ever! I has used Atom, Sublime, Notepad++... But vscode is the best!
Right now I moved for a IDE, cause it provide some resources that I'm needing, but I still love vscode.

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Tim Bogdanov

I've used others like you mentioned, atom, notepad++ but sublime was my go to for the longest time.

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Deep Nandi

You can use Prettier too it's a good code formatter and probably a lifesaver for me.

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Linh Truong Cong Hong

(Just an addition) After installing Prettier, you should go to Setting and change the Auto format to Prettier, also enable auto format on saving and pasting so that Prettier will be called any time you hit Save button or pasting a bunch of code from an external source.

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Tim Bogdanov

I've used Prettier for a bit, but noticed that sometimes i crams code together, I've been using Beautify recently and it feels a bit more polished

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Rob OLeary

Hi Tim,

There are settings in VS Code for auto renaming and auto closing tags. Check out my article to see the details:

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Sharon Gomez

great list! definitely gonna start using auto rename tag and gitlens.

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Tim Bogdanov

auto-rename is a life saver

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Ken Sparks

Love the extensions list at the end. Welcome to the dark side.

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Tim Bogdanov

YES! Check out my VS Code theme called Black Sand: rel.ink/n8GZJV

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Andrew Baisden

Bracket Pair Colorizer is so good it should be baked in.