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Master VS Code + Resources!

Hardik Chopra on December 24, 2020

Most of the time of a developer is spent on an IDE/ Code Editor. So it is very important to work in an environment that suits your needs and is com...
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Mehdi Mousavi • Edited

Some suggestions:
Themes: All three themes have a bluish background color, I suggest black background (not pure black) especially if you have a display with VA panel.

Fonts: I've tried almost all famous fonts for coding, Fira Code is amazing, Period.

Icons: I hate everything related to Material Design. anyway, I prefer simple and flat icons with neutral colors.

Keyboard Shortcuts:  I think the best default keyboard shortcuts for coding are from Jetbrains IDE's.

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Hardik Chopra

Thank you for a detailed analysis 😇
Appreciated 🙌

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The left image "From This" has a nicer proportional font. Especially with nice ligatures, why would you want a monospace font?

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Hardik Chopra

Sorry, but which image are you talking about? I didn't get your question.

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edA‑qa mort‑ora‑y

The title image you used for the article.

I meant I prefer the before image, with the nicer font. :)

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Hardik Chopra

That was just to show that you can customize the font of your choice, not necessarily that one, it depends from person to person.
To demonstrate how we can change the font was needed to apply font ligatures that come with other fonts that are not pre-installed.
I thought a lot of users may not know about font-ligatures ☺️

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Banji

Keep it up :)

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Hardik Chopra

Thanx. ☺️👍

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Mid

Thanks for the golden tip I needed with Font Ligatures! Didn't even know their name and kept seeing them in places like videos and tutorials. They're awesome!

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Hardik Chopra

Yups! they are pretty cool.!!⚡

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Parth Bhardwaj

Bonus section is awesome.... i'll surely go through it.

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Hardik Chopra

Yeah, that's the coolest thing for me too 😜