What are your favorite VS Code extensions and why?

• GitHub Pull Request - It helps me see how the changes fit with the rest of the code. And, of course, reviewing and managing PRs.
• GitLens - There are so many good stuff about this extension! I especially like all the "meta" info added to each file like who made the last change, what it was, having a direct link to a commit, etc.
• Project Manager - Helps me manage projects. I think VS Code has something similar build-in by now (or am I mistaken?) but never gave it a try. This extension is quite handy.
• Prettier - Formats the code for me. There are cases where I don't like a particular formatting but it's fine 99% of the time.
• TSLint - Helps me have a somewhat consistent and stupid-errors-free codebase.
• Night Owl - The dark theme is the best.
• Angular Snippets - Like it for all the snippets it provides, so I can quickly move to actually doing something productive.
• CSS Flexbox Cheatsheet - Like it because it lets me open a flexbox cheatsheet on the side so I can look up properties and their values. (Disclosure: I built this extension).

I have a few that I must have

• prettier - it current has some funky issues formatting html, but besides that. ctrl+s = well formatted code.
• gitlens - all your git needs in your UI. I only use it for "visual" tasks, good-ol terminal for all the other stuff.
• Settings sync I have a lot of settings, extensions and use multiple machines (at least 3 most days) keeping my config the same when I change it on all machines is great
• Synthwave '84 - I love the "80's neon grid" aesthetic. So much so I installed this as my first editor theme, its freaken awesome! 😎 (well at least to me it is haha)

Obviously Random Name Generator!

Just kidding, I wrote that one when I just wanted an excuse to get to know the VS Code API.

Here's a few I like:
Azure Pipelines
Azure Repos
Bracket Pair Colorizer 2
C#
Live Share
Peacock
PowerShell

I think they're all pretty straightforward for why I like them and how they're used. The only non-obvious thing, is that with the Azure Pipelines extension, you can change the language of a YAML build definition from YAML to Azure Pipelines and get some better intellisense.

GitLens - it allows me to quickly see history both for files and for individual lines within a file and quickly compare to see what changed without having to remember (or look up) git diff commands.

The "Remote Development" Extension (pack). This is just amazing! I use it daily and I would cry like a little child when someone would take it away from me! This makes daily development so much easier! Just set up your remote env and from that point just open VS Code and everything is setup. Amazing!

I also published a post about my VS Code setup. There I talk about the other extensions I use.

Some of my current favorites:

• Bracket Pair Colorizer 2 - Sometimes brackets like to get lost!
• Peacock - Give those windows some color to tell projects apart
• PolaCode - I don't use this one often but its always super useful when I need it
• Toggle Quotes - Quickly toggle between quotes
• Turbo Console Log - Throws in a console.log() with the code path in case you're like me and like to litter them all over the place

GitHub Pull Requests
Great for PR checkouts/reviews.

Remote Development Extension Pack
The only way I want to develop now. So much so that I wrote a talk about it.

Gist
Awesome extension for managing/editing your Gists.

Docker
Great for linting Dockerfiles & docker-compose files. Also gives nice insight to containers, images, networks and volumes on your machine.

Angular Snippets (Version 8)
Snippets that speed up my Angular work. Thank you @john_papa for the countless hours you've saved me with this one.

Bracket Pair Colorizer 2
Nice coloring of brackets to identify where you're at and what's closed.

My favorite language-agnostic extensions

• dark-plus-syntax- Current theme
• GitLens - Enough said
• Output Colorizer Syntax highlighting for log files
• Path Autocomplete - Best path complete extension I've found so far
• Prettier - To format all the things
• Settings Sync - Makes setting up VSCode on a new workspace a breeze.
• Snippet Creator - Best snippet creator I've found
• Sort Lines - Comes in surprisingly handy
• Spell Checker - No more spelling mistakes
• VSCode Simpler Icons - Favorite icon set so far

Shameless plug: These are all grouped together into my language agnostic extension pack: Essentials

Git Graph - Does exactly what it says
Git Lens - Git on steroids
Atlassin Bitbucket - issue tracking, code review, pull requests all inside the editor
Docker - Managing images and containers
VscodeVim - Good way to learn vim
Horizon Theme - My current theme

Remote Development is a tool I use every day. It makes it so easy to work on server code.

VsCodeVim is great for people like me who love vim, but also want to use a more modern experience. I especially love how vim macros work in VS Code.