Immensely Upgrade Your Development Environment With These Visual Studio Code Extensions

Let’s talk about code — Visual Studio Code

Let’s talk about code — Visual Studio Code.

Some of my readers requested that I write about the extensions I use — so here we go!

Our VSC will be a five-horned laser-powered unicorn. Here are the most useful extensions I use every day!

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Material Theme

The most epic theme now for Visual Studio Code:

Auto Import

Automatically finds, parses and provides code actions and code completion for all available imports. Works with Typescript and TSX.

Import Cost

This extension will display the size of the imported package, inline in the editor. The extension utilizes Webpack with the babili-webpack-plugin in order to detect the imported size.

Indent-Rainbow

A simple extension to make indentation more readable.

IntelliSense for CSS Class Names in HTML

A VS Code extension that provides CSS class name completion for the HTML class attribute, based on the definitions found in your workspace or external files, referenced through the link element.

SVG Viewer

An easy way to preview SVGs.

Prettier — Code Formatter

Can’t live without this one! A VS Code package to format your JavaScript / TypeScript / CSS using Prettier.

React Native Tools

Code hinting, debugging, and integrated commands for React Native.

Sublime Text Keymap and Settings Importer

This extension converts Visual Studio Code bindings to the same as ST3. Give it a spin and try this:

cmd ⌘ + P — Mac

ctrl + P — Windows

You can go to files, and if you add the > symbol in front of the search you can search for actions — like toggling the built in terminal, installing extensions, and so on.

Big win for those of us who are used to ST3 shortcuts.

npm Intellisense

VSCode plugin that autocompletes npm modules in import statements.

Lit-html

Adds syntax highlighting and language support for HTML, inside of JavaScript and TypeScript tagged template strings, as is used in lit-html and other frameworks.

GitLens — Git Supercharged

Git Project Manager

Git Project Manager (GPM) is a Microsoft VS Code extension that allows you to open a new window, targeting a Git repository directly from a VS Code window.

Git History

View a Git log or file history, and compare branches or commits.

File Utils

A convenient way of creating, duplicating, moving, renaming and deleting files and directories.

Bracket Pair Colorizer

A customizable extension for colorizing matching brackets. Very useful when working with a lot of callbacks.

Color Highlight

This extension styles CSS/web colors found in your document.

CSS Peek

Allow peeking to CSS ID and class strings as definitions, from HTML files to respective CSS. Allows peek and go to definition.

Debugger for Chrome

Debug your JavaScript code in the Chrome browser, or any other target that supports the Chrome debugger protocol.

Quokka.js

Live Scratchpad for JavaScript (useful for quick demos).

Trailing Spaces

Highlight trailing spaces and delete them in a flash!

TypeScript Hero

WakaTime

Metrics, insights, and time tracking — automatically generated from your programming activity.

Vetur

Vue tooling for VSCode

Code Runner

Run a code snippet or code file for multiple languages.

PHP IntelliSense

Advanced autocompletion and refactoring support for PHP.

Vscode-icons

Icons for VS Code.

Jest

Use Facebook’s Jest With Pleasure.

React.js Code Snippets

Code snippets for React.js development in ES6 syntax.

If you know any handy extensions, please post them below and I’ll add them to the list.

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