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7 BEST VS Code Extensions for Faster Development — 2024 Edition 🚀

Best Codes on September 14, 2024

How is This Article Different? Recently, I've seen lots of posts about VS Code extensions. But did you know that many of the posts are o...

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Best Codes • Sep 14

I mostly wrote this post because I was sad to see a lot of clickbait, low effort, or misinformation posts spreading. It may seem a bit redundant, but this is a real, accurate post written by a human — it would be nice if you can support it by liking it. 🙂

Thank you!

Đỗ Thiện Hoàng • Sep 15

Thanks very much. I am so tired of seeing those AI-generated posts, even on Twitter (X now). Those poor, low effort content creators are shameless

Best Codes • Sep 15

Glad I could help. 😊

Rob Benzo • Sep 15

ikr, all the ai JUNK is driving me crazy, i can't find good content anymore

Best Codes • Sep 15

Junk in general drives me crazy. As long as AI content is good, I'm fine with it, but unchecked effortless garbage is not only annoying but also harmful.

Rob Benzo • Sep 15

yeah

Đỗ Thiện Hoàng • Sep 16

Not only they unchecked the content, they also repeated in posting them week to week 😆

Best Codes • Sep 16

That's also bothersome. :D
Often, the same post contains the same extension more than once as well. 😂

Best Codes • Sep 15

Thanks for the feedback, everybody. :D

Stefan Neidig • Sep 17

I don't know man. Not sure how Code Snap helps me to develop faster. Would have loved some extensions that actually help and an explanation why. For example

Error Lens -> Helps you track and fix errors faster
Github Actions -> Syntax highlighting and yaml lint so that you see erorrs during development and not when you actually run it online
Github Copilot / Claude Dev - for obvious reasons
Project Manager -> Find your projects faster

I hope you get the idea. Every extension is still debatable, but these are actually ones that help you develop faster (as your title suggests)

Best Codes • Sep 17

As I said in my post:

This extension doesn't particularly enhance your productivity, but it has saved me a lot of time (I'm picky about how I present my code)!

I also like all the extensions you suggested. :)

Stefan Neidig • Sep 17

Ah nevermind then. I must have overread this and focused to much on the title :D Fair point then

Best Codes • Sep 17

:) I can see where you're coming from. I might make some edits just to make things a bit clearer.

Thanks for the feedback!

Christophe Avonture • Sep 16

Remove postman (paid) and replace by ThunderClient (free for private use and just excellent with a tremendous support)

Best Codes • Sep 16

Postman is free.

Christophe Avonture • Sep 16

Not really postman.com/pricing/

Best Codes • Sep 16

It's worked fine for me:

anscarlett • Sep 15

I dont like the postman plugin at all, I use the REST Client plugin.
Running api calls from a plain text file means I can easily add them to git along with the source code.

Best Codes • Sep 15

Cool! I'll check that out.

cosma203 • Sep 16

Thank you so much for sharing, awesome list! I would like to recommend one more, that shows errors inline with the code. It works flawlessly with JS/TS and Go.

marketplace.visualstudio.com/items...

Best Codes • Sep 16

I checked out Error Lens and I love it! I might have to add that one in if I make another post.

Martin Baun • Sep 16 • Edited

One thing I would love about codesnap is to be able to configure the background/padding size. But anyway it's already very much usable and appreciated.