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10 Must have VS Code Extensions for Developers in 2024

The are some favous and most used VS Code Extensions for Developers are as follow:


Material Icon Theme
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Sometimes you can feel lost when you are trying to figure out a structure of your project in a code editor. However, with this extension this process will become more user-friendly. Material Icon Theme gives your files and folders simple icons which increase the clarity of this list.

Download here: Material Icon Theme


Bracket Pair Colorizer
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Having tons of nested code can be painful for most coders, especially when a project is big. Trying to match brackets with each other is definitely time-consuming but in some cases it may even seem to be impossible. Therefore, I highly recommend taking advantage of using this extension.

Download here: Bracket Pair Colorizer


Auto-Close Tag
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This extension is a must-have. Missing a close tag can be very irritating, especially if you’ve just started your coding adventure. At the beginning this kind of mistake occurs commonly. Auto-Close Tag adds the closing bracket of the opening tag automatically, so that you can be sure that no bugs appear!

Download here: Auto-Close Tag


Auto-Rename Tag
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Instead of changing open and close tags by yourself, you can use Auto-Rename Tag and do this simultaneously. Start changing an open tag and its close tag will change automatically. This is very useful, especially when you have a lot of nested code.

Download here: Auto-Rename Tag


Quokka.js
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Quokka is a very useful extension which lets you write your JavaScript code and test if it does what it should in real time. Results of these verifications are displayed in your IDE, on the right side of your code.

Download here: Quokka.js


ESLint
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It allows you to forget about common errors.The difference between ESLint and Prettier is the fact that the first extension is more focused on detecting errors while the second one is rather focused on correcting formatting. It manages your code pretty easily and auto-formats it after pressing a save button. If there are any problems, ESLint shows you warnings with more detailed information and/or hints. What is more, you’re able to fully customize it. When you’re ready with your own settings, you need to be sure that automatic fixes work on saving by adding { “eslint.autoFixOnSave”: true } to settings.json.

Download here: ESLint


Material Icon Theme
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Sometimes you can feel lost when you are trying to figure out a structure of your project in a code editor. However, with this extension this process will become more user-friendly. Material Icon Theme gives your files and folders simple icons which increase the clarity of this list.

Download here: Material Icon Theme


TabNine
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TabNine is one of the greatest shocks I experienced when it comes to VS code extensions. It is based on machine learning technology and helps you to write your code by autocompleting it. It works with all languages and the relevance of its hints is astounding. When you start using TabNine, you’ll be amazed how quickly it learns and how much faster and easier your work will become.

Download here: TabNine


Path Intellisense
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Remembering a whole file’s path that you want to import is completely redundant. Unfortunately, it can cause issues and that is why this is the moment where Path Intellisense comes to aid. After having been installed, it’ll start showing you hints of next directories or files you can use.

Download here: Path Intellisense


ES7 React/Redux/GraphQl/React-Native snippets
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This is one of those extensions which can make your code writing process significantly faster. If you are not a great fan of writing boilerplate code or you’d just want to become more efficient – this is definitely for you. In your VS code you can check a list of commands very easily, which ES7 provides.

Download here: ES7


Prettier
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Prettier is considered to be one of the crucial plugins in daily work as a programmer. It lets you save a lot of time which in other case you would waste formatting your code and taking care of its readability. Prettier works very well with JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, CSS, Markdown and others.

Download here: Prettier


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Paweł Ciosek • Edited

Thank you for the post! 👏

There are small mistakes to fix, to make it even better:

  • you have listed two times "Material Icon Theme" 🫣
  • Vs Code has built in bracket pair colors, extension "Bracket Pair Colorizer" has been deprecated: Image description
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Ashish Patel

Use Indent Rainbow by @orderwat

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Luca Ramseyer

Bracket Pair Colorizer is deprecated because it is now a native feature in vscode. No need for any extension for this anymore.

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Anmol Baranwal

Yep! I've used it and it's very helpful.

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Eugeniu

Sorry, looks like this list was compiled in a randomizer...

  • Bracket pair colorizer is built-in;
  • Recommending subjective themes as "must haves" is questionable, and it’s listed twice
  • Also, tabnine is the worst extension here, I would avoid it at any cost
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Stefan Neidig

Thought so too. Came here for this comment.

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Athreya aka Maneshwar • Edited

Quokka is nice, just tried it out :D

I also commented on another thread, just copy-pasting it might help you

I'll share a few extensions which helped me.

  1. Name: autoDocstring - Python Docstring Generator Link: marketplace.visualstudio.com/items...
  2. Name: Better Comments Link: marketplace.visualstudio.com/items...
  3. Name: Code Spell Checker Link: marketplace.visualstudio.com/items...
  4. Name: Color Highlight Link: marketplace.visualstudio.com/items...
  5. Name: Image preview Link: marketplace.visualstudio.com/items...
  6. Name: Live Preview Link: marketplace.visualstudio.com/items...
  7. Name: VSCode Great Icons Link: marketplace.visualstudio.com/items...
  8. Name: WakaTime Link: marketplace.visualstudio.com/items...
  9. Name: Window Colors Link: marketplace.visualstudio.com/items...
  10. Name: Remote - SSH Link: marketplace.visualstudio.com/items...
  11. Name: Lama2 Collaborative API Client Link: marketplace.visualstudio.com/items...
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Md Kawsar Islam Yeasin

Quokka is good, but Console Ninja is a much better option.

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Ashish Patel

Here are the fews which should be in the list

  • Todo Highlights
  • Git Lens
  • colorize
  • Code spell checker
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Nikola Perišić

I would like to suggest more cool extensions to try out :)

  1. Code Spell Checker
  2. CodeSnap
  3. Import Cost
  4. Markdown Preview
  5. Turbo Console Log
  6. Bookmarks
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Walfal • Edited

With error lens, no need to hover the errror, it's inlined in the code!
You can also match colors in indent rainbow and in params of bracket pair colorizer (directly in vscode config) to see easily where you are. Indent rainbow also helps when you choose a 2 spaces indentation.
For me, better comments is a must have to highlignt importants comments, TODO, etc.
Code runner can be useful if you want to run quickly small programs.
GitLens to see faster who has made a modification so I can ask him directly.

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luqiudi

tabnine ,emmmm,not so smart= =

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Shubham Kumar Sinha

"Bracket Pair Colorizer" This extension is deprecated as this functionality is now built-in to VS Code.

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Kevin Ramirez

I also use Auto Import, Better Comments, Error Lens, Highlight Matching Tag, Import Cost and so on.

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