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I think you are missing a couple of really good ones, as far as general purpose extensions are concerned:
+1 to gitlens, awesome plug-in.
I just tried Peacock and I'm into it! I like the surprise me setting. Thanks!
Good ones! I've included them in my updated version here: x-team.com/blog/best-vscode-extens...
Auto Rename Tags has a massive amount of bugs which makes this extension unusable. At least that was my experience :)
I've added a little edit underneath Auto Rename Tags about its bugs. Thank you for mentioning it!
I prefer GitGraph over GitHistory. I just like the design better, both extensions are fantastic and doing what they are supposed to do.
Hey, thank you Thomas for sharing these!
"Bracket Pair Colorizer" & "Bookmarks" are probably the two from the list that I can't work without anymore 😁
You made me discover "Regex Previewer", it looks very useful. It could definitely save me time from going to regex101.com to check RegExp magic.
I'd also like to suggest people to try an automated refactoring extension. These can save you precious time and make you more productive working with existing code.
If your language is JS / TS, you can have a look to:
Again, thank you for sharing and have a nice day!
Happy you found a new useful extension! And both automated refactoring extensions look useful. Thanks for sharing.
Great list! I'll second the comment that GitLens is an awesome plugin to consider, and if you are interested in increasing team productivity (in addition to personal productivity) then one to consider is CodeStream (disclaimer, I'm the author).
Thank you very much settings sync, life server and bookmarks are pure gold.
I prefer nearest icons extension to icon fonts because we can see directly the font awesome icons we are looking for. Regex Previewer seems really convenient but I can't make it work. Anyway Thank for this great post !
thanks for Bracket Pair Colorizer
Good one's. Let me add "Turbo Console Log" marketplace.visualstudio.com/items...
Good one. I've added that one in the updated version of this article: x-team.com/blog/best-vscode-extens...
Hello!
Thank you for sharing!
I've created myself an article where I share my favourite extensions for VSCode !
Here : My favourite extensions for Visual Studio Code
Most of these don't help non-web programmers, but there are some great general-purpose extensions here too!
Yes, that's a good point. Any general-purpose ones you could recommend?
Visual Studio Code is tertiary among IDEs I use - Eclipse and Visual Studio (Enterprise) get used WAY more - so I haven't invested enough in extensions to recommend any!
Nice article Thomas! I created a similar article, maybe you can take a look on it here boobo94.xyz/tips/vscode-setup-for-...
Thomas - wow this is outstanding. - , great and overwhelming - i appreciate your text it is very very good .
i am happy to read your text - i like it very much. Can you give us more hints to run VSCode or VSCodium on mx-linux:
cf : I use VSCode daily and it is widely used, i am shocked it is not in stable repo. Please add VSCode to the package list. please - see more here: forum.mxlinux.org/viewtopic.php?f=...
you are invited to add your ideas to the thread.
dear Thomas- well we look forward to hear form you -regards tarifa
Regex Previewer seems like an awesome tool. Can't wait to start using it.
Thanks a lot for this Thomas!
Auto Rename Tag is buggy as hell!
I've added a little edit underneath Auto Rename Tags about its bugs. Thank you for mentioning it!
this should be integrated with VSCode :(
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Wow! These are all great suggestions!
Thanks so much, Thomas!
You should try it tabnine.com
Thank you for sharing this
What about increased productivity due to collaboration to the left of the dev process? Would you consider that a productivity enhancer? Like say using Live Share (aka.ms/vsls)
That's a good question. I'd say that you're likely going to be a little bit slower when working together with other people, but you're likely to end up with a better end product.
It's basically what this proverb says: "When you want to go fast, go alone. When you want to go far, go together."