It's no secret that Visual Studio Code has become one of (if not the) most popular code editors in the world today. It's everywhere, and people are...
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Settings syncing and auto rename are built-in features in VS Code now, you can check out my recent article to see the details, so those extensions you mentioned are no longer necessary (depending on your exact use case).
VS Code: You don't need that extension
Rob OLeary ・ Aug 5 '20
Good point on the auto renaming, I actually had found about 4 or 5 other extensions that were no longer needed while writing this out.
Added a note that Auto Rename is no longer needed. Thanks for pointing that out!
Youre welcome 😎
On Settings Sync, I mentioned in the article that I actually use both the built in and this extension with why I kept it around. There's still things that the entensions can do that the built in cannot, like sharing your setting publicly and keeping different setting configurations saved for easy recall.
I like the big list but I think few of extensions are now baked into vscode.
Ex: npm intellisense, auto close tag etc.
Also with such a big curation of extensions, I'm sure vscode's gonna become webstorm essentially in terms of speed. No pun intended.
Great collection.
Thanks
Completely! In terms of the speed, the great thing with VSCode is you can activate/deactivate extensions on a workspace basis. You can keep them installed, but only activated in particular projects when needed so that you aren't bogging down VSCode itself.
Great post Tre! Thanks for including why/how of how you use the extensions, I will be slowly adding these to my toolkit that way I can remember/memorize the hotkeys instead of overloading myself, will definitely be revisiting this post. Eagerly looking forward to more posts!
Thanks Mitchell! That's the way to do it for extensions that add hotkeys. Don't overload yourself, add in one or two, get used to the hotkeys, then come back for more. This gives you time to evolve your workflow naturally.
Nice list!!
One more extention that I think could ease your life is Error Lens
To see an error right in to editor screen
Just tried it out today and I would agree it's really nice! Just added it to the
Debugginglist.You are the second person to recommend this! Definitely going to take a look and possibly add it to this list!
Markdown All in One is a bit too much of a kitchen sink approach for my taste. If you just want to choose specific extensions for what you need in markdown, try the following:
Choose one of the 'Markdown Shortcuts' extensions, whichever style you prefer!
I'll take a look at these! I understand some don't like the kitchen sink approach. The main thing for me here is that I use Foam to write my notes and it's meant to be used with Markdown All in One. I'm always refining though and will definitely check these out!
Quite a list buddy. Some of these I didn't even knew is there in the internet xd
Indeed! Some I didn't even know until I started going through this. 😅 I've been using Visual Studio Code for nearly four years now though, so it's been an extended time of refining and curating them.
Just a FYI that native settings sync has made it to the latest stable version of VS Code.
Good write up ♥️
Yeah, I mention that in here as well. I use that in addition to the Setting Sync plugin as there's advantages in both of them that the other does not have.
Great list! Output colorizer is now one of my favorites 😀
Added to my read later list, I am on the phone right now, but there must be some gold in this exhaustive list! Nice one!
Awesome post! Lots I had never heard of before that I installed immediately and a few that I bookmarked to check out later. Thanks for sharing
The best one would remove VS Code and install Sublime Text 😛
The best tool is the one that makes you the most productive. For some, that's Sublime, for others thats VSCode, for others that's vim/emacs/JetBrains IDEs/Atom/etc...
Great list I do wonder though if having too many extensions installed would slow down the code editor?
Depending on the extensions, yes, they can. However, I've found that this is not as big of an issue to put too much thought into. In general, I try to limit the amount of extensions I have activated at any given time. I have many that are only enabled while I'm in specific workspaces and projects. VSCode is great in the factor that you can actively enable or disable extensions like this and have it saved.