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Tina Huynh
Tina Huynh

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VSCode Extensions I'm in LOVE with

Table of Contents

  1. CodeSnap
  2. Colorize
  3. Beautify
  4. Live Server
  5. autoDocstring
  6. GitLens
  7. Remote - SSH
  8. .gitignore
  9. Auto Rename Tag
  10. CSS Peek
  11. Conclusion

CodeSnap

Quickly allows you to create screenshots of your code by simply highlighting the respective snippet within your project. It's that easy! No more opening a new tab, copying over the code, and saving the photo. The image will be generated live side by side with options to cut, copy, and paste.

Codesnap

Colorize

Colorize visualizes color variables by highlighting them with their color value. This is a handy timesaver for translating hex codes and variable names.

colorize

Beautify

Beautify will easily help you with any kind of problems with readable your code and so on. Everything that you need is: Press F1 and choose “Beautify file”. It will automatically fix what you want.

beautify

Live Server

When you write your HTML, CSS, or JavaScript file you can press “Go Live” at the bottom of your VSCode window and it will automatically add your changes on a webpage without any reloads, etc.

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autoDocstring

The docstrings are declared using ”'triple single quotes”' or “””triple double quotes””” just below the class, method or function declaration. All functions should have a docstring.

python docs

GitLens

GitLens is an open-source extension for Visual Studio Code. GitLens simply helps you better understand code. Quickly glimpse into whom, why, and when a line or code block was changed. Jump back through history to gain further insights as to how and why the code evolved.

Remote SSH

The Remote - SSH extension lets you use any remote machine with a SSH server as your development environment. This can greatly simplify development and troubleshooting in a wide variety of situations.

remote ssh

gitignore

Lets you pull .gitignore templates from the https://github.com/github/gitignore repository. Language support for .gitignore files.

gitignore

Auto Rename Tag

Auto rename paired HTML/XML tag

auto rename

CSS Peek

Allow peeking to css ID and class strings as definitions from html files to respective CSS. Allows peek and goto definition.

css peek

Conclusion

What are your favorite VSCode extensions? I excludes icon packs and themes but I would love to see what everyone is using out there!

Happy coding!

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Rabeeh Ebrahim

I would like to add bookmark extension. It's really handy. You can book mark lines of code and give label to it. And find them on bookmark tab on the left side of the panel. Great list btw!

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Ivan Isaac

Wonderful post

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Paramo9

I really love Tabnine, it's a really really good AI assistance for fast coding, it predicts code such as name functions, parameters, string structures, and things like that, it's perfect if you like the "snippet" thing, it really saves much time. Here's the link:

https://www.tabnine.com/install/vscode?utm_term=&utm_source=google.com&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=14854202152&utm_content=&gclid=Cj0KCQjw3v6SBhCsARIsACyrRAmN2fqJIWFS5PQt9yL7mcmAEm-tfFaAcgngcno9LqkZtDRNr5Uuom4aAjEfEALw_wcB

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Tina Huynh

Thanks for sharing!

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AlixaProDev

wow, this is quite interesting. though I have most of them already installed.
Happy coding Tina.

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Raaj

Nice

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Arif Matubber

Thank you so much

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max

Great article, there's a couple I didn't know but will definitly check out.

(Also, some of the picture aren't explicit enough, IMO :3) but still thanks for sharing.

Here's a couple I use a lot :

  • Better comments > simple syntax for colored comments
  • Bookmarks > easily jumps accross file or files
  • change-case > Easily switch from one case to another, oh god so much time gained
  • eslint > JS linter
  • indent-rainbow > Helps for indentation
  • Markdown > documentation made easy
    • all in one
    • preview enhanced
    • lint
  • Material Icon Theme > Better browser tree
  • Todo Tree > Set "TODO: " as comment for stuff to do later, and this plugins help retreiving all
  • Toggle quotes > So much time gained too. In one shortcut circle through ' > " > `

Have a good day :)

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Tina Huynh

Thanks for the suggestions

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Mahfoudh Arous

nice list, I installed codesnap. I use also "Path Intellisence", "HTML End Tag Labels", "Live Sass Compiler", "indent-rainbo":
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Tina Huynh

Oooo interesting thanks for sharing

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dongseoki

My favorite vs code extension is code converter~!
It makes me to change snake case to camel case, and also change reversly works too!

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Tina Huynh

Oh interesting

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sndp

Material icon theme for icons.
Github Dark High Contrast is the best theme imo.

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Tina Huynh

Beautiful!

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Arthur Nascimento Assunção

Please try Github Copilot (need to subscribe for beta tester)

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Tina Huynh

Will look into it... is there only beta right now?

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Arthur Nascimento Assunção

Yes, but it's getting easier become beta tester.

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Tina Huynh

Ahh interesting

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Harshit Kumar • Edited

I have a lot of love for code tour - marketplace.visualstudio.com/items...
It makes sharing knowledge about a codebase so easier.

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Tina Huynh

Thanks for sharing

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Gustavo Vasquez

I moved my settings a few weeks ago to the native setting sync included in vscode. Best decision of 2022, really easy to use and it synchronize with all my computers automatically.

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Toni

If you're a TS / JS dev like me:

  • ESLint
  • Prettier

If you're an Angular dev like me:

  • Angular Extension Pack

Anyone:

  • GitLens
  • Github Copilot (at the moment you need to be accepted for beta testing i guess)
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Tina Huynh

Thanks for the suggestions!

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Gene Smith

If you are looking for a lightweight replacement for Postman, you should really check out Thunder Client. Indispensable for testing APIs within VSCode. thunderclient.com/

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Tina Huynh

Oh thank you! Will definitely look into it