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Shwetha
Shwetha

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My VSCode Config

Hi fellow devs,

For my first post, I'm just documenting my VSCode configurations here for posterity's sake or just for my reference later. Keep in mind that this list is going to be language agnostic and more so utility/aesthetic suggestions (though these are inevitably tied to what languages I work with, so take that as you will). Please feel free to suggest any good extensions that I've missed out on or your absolute must-haves!

Extensions

  1. Duplicate selection or line - keyboard shortcut for duplication (cmd/ctrl+d)
  2. GitLens - essential when working with teams
  3. Error Lens - inlines errors for better dev experience
  4. Import Cost - tells you the size of imported package, pretty useful for performance improvements
  5. Kill Process - kill a process from vscode menu
  6. Project Dashboard - quick overview of all your projects for easy navigation
  7. Decompiler - decompiles stuff, useful for debugging
  8. Toggle Zen Mode - adds a button for enabling zen mode so you don't have to remember the shortcut
  9. Bracket Select - quickly select code in between brackets
  10. Auto Rename Tag - rename pair of tags automatically
  11. vscode-icons - icons for most file extensions you can think of
  12. Dracula Official - my preferred VSCode theme

Now, on to aliases. This isn't part of VSCode; it's git. But I've included it here anyway as the two do complement each other. Here's the alias section of my .gitconfig file.

[alias]
    ac = !git add -A && git commit -m
    cd = !git checkout develop
    cm = !git checkout master
    pd = !git pull origin develop
    pm = !git pull origin master
    cn = !git checkout -b
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Additional Resources

  1. https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2018/01/visual-studio-code/

That's all for my first post folks. Thanks for reading and have a nice day! ✨

Top comments (15)

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Athreya aka Maneshwar

Project Dashboard was good.

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...
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Shwetha

👀 Definitely see some items on this list that I want to check out, thanks for the info!

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Danish Saleem

Here's mine VSCode configuration settings. It's not that pretty fancy:

{
  "editor.renderWhitespace": "all",
  "editor.snippetSuggestions": "top",
  "editor.fontLigatures": true,
  "editor.formatOnSave": true,
  "files.trimTrailingWhitespace": true,
  "files.trimFinalNewlines": true,
  "workbench.iconTheme": "material-icon-theme",
  "terminal.integrated.defaultProfile.windows": "PowerShell",
  "terminal.integrated.fontFamily": "'FiraCode Nerd', 'Inconsolata for Powerline', monospace",
  "php.validate.executablePath": "C:/xampp/php/php.exe",
  "eslint.run": "onType",
  "[html]": {
    "editor.defaultFormatter": "esbenp.prettier-vscode"
  },
  "[css]": {
    "editor.defaultFormatter": "esbenp.prettier-vscode"
  },
  "[javascript]": {
    "editor.defaultFormatter": "esbenp.prettier-vscode"
  },
  "[jsonc]": {
    "editor.defaultFormatter": "esbenp.prettier-vscode"
  }
}

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namingthingsishard profile image
Shwetha

No judgement here, minimalist configs rule!

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Danish Saleem

Yep, I like to keep it minimalistic.

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Walfal

Here is my settings.json, if you want to take some ideas:
{
"editor.cursorStyle": "line",
"editor.cursorBlinking": "expand",
"editor.fontSize": 20,
"editor.defaultFormatter": "esbenp.prettier-vscode",
"editor.formatOnSave": true,
"editor.formatOnSaveMode": "modificationsIfAvailable",
"editor.suggestSelection": "first",
"editor.tabCompletion": "on",
"editor.insertSpaces": true,
"editor.tabSize": 4,
"editor.detectIndentation": false,
"editor.minimap.enabled": false,
"editor.fontFamily": "'Fira Code'",
"editor.fontLigatures": "'ss01', 'cv14', 'ss04', 'cv18', 'cv31', cv29', 'cv30', 'cv21', 'cv25', 'cv28', 'cv32', 'cv27', 'ss10', 'zero', 'onum'",
"editor.fontWeight": 400,
"editor.tokenColorCustomizations": {
"comments": "#55f",
"strings": "#0f0",
"keywords": "#c0c",
"types": "#f84",
"variables": "#aff",
"functions": "#0ff",
"numbers": "#ff0",
"textMateRules": [
{
"scope": "keyword.operator",
"settings": {
"foreground": "#f00"
}
},
{
"scope": "punctuation",
"settings": {
"foreground": "#f00"
}
},
{
"scope": "variable.other.constant",
"settings": {
"foreground": "#5bc"
}
},
{
"scope": "variable.other.property",
"settings": {
"foreground": "#ccc"
}
},
{
"scope": "variable.parameter",
"settings": {
"foreground": "#fc7"
}
}
]
},
"editor.bracketPairColorization.enabled": true,
"editor.guides.bracketPairs": true,
"editor.guides.bracketPairsHorizontal": true,
"editor.guides.highlightActiveBracketPair": true,
"editor.inlineSuggest.enabled": true,
"editor.unicodeHighlight.nonBasicASCII": false,
"editor.language.colorizedBracketPairs": [
["[", "]"],
["(", ")"],
["{", "}"],
[" <", ">\n"]
],
"workbench.editor.tabSizing": "shrink",
"workbench.iconTheme": "material-icon-theme",
"workbench.sideBar.location": "right",
"workbench.colorCustomizations": {
"[Default Dark+]": {
"editor.background": "#000"
},
"editorBracketHighlight.foreground1": "#c000ff",
"editorBracketHighlight.foreground2": "#00f",
"editorBracketHighlight.foreground3": "#00c0ff",
"editorBracketHighlight.foreground4": "#00ff80",
"editorBracketHighlight.foreground5": "#ffff00",
"editorBracketHighlight.foreground6": "#ff4000",
"editorBracketHighlight.foreground7": "#ff0080",
"editorBracketHighlight.unexpectedBracket.foreground": "#f00"
},
"indentRainbow.colors": [
"rgba(192, 0, 255, .25)",
"rgba( 0, 0, 255, .25)",
"rgba( 0, 192, 255, .25)",
"rgba( 0, 255, 128, .25)",
"rgba( 64, 255, 0, .25)",
"rgba(255, 255, 0, .25)",
"rgba(255, 64, 0, .25)",
"rgba(255, 0, 128, .25)"
],
"files.exclude": {
"/.classpath": false,
"
/.project": true,
"/.settings": true,
"
/.factorypath": true
},
"files.autoSave": "afterDelay",
"javascript.format.insertSpaceAfterConstructor": false,
"prettier.printWidth": 120,
"prettier.useTabs": true,
"prettier.withNodeModules": true,
"prettier.singleQuote": true,
"prettier.bracketSpacing": false,

"code-runner.saveFileBeforeRun": true,
"code-runner.executorMap": {
    "javascript": "node",
    "java": "cd $dir && javac $fileName -d ../bin/ && cd ../bin; java $fileNameWithoutExt; cd ../src",
    "c": "cd $dir && gcc $fileName -o $fileNameWithoutExt && $dir$fileNameWithoutExt",
    "cpp": "cd $dir && g++ $fileName -o $fileNameWithoutExt && $dir$fileNameWithoutExt",
    "objective-c": "cd $dir && gcc -framework Cocoa $fileName -o $fileNameWithoutExt && $dir$fileNameWithoutExt",
    "php": "php",
    "python": "python3 -u",
    "go": "go run",
    "shellscript": "bash",
    "csharp": "scriptcs",
    "typescript": "ts-node",
    "r": "Rscript"
},
"liveServer.settings.donotVerifyTags": true,
"liveServer.settings.donotShowInfoMsg": true,

"emmet.showSuggestionsAsSnippets": true,
"emmet.excludeLanguages": ["markdown", "php"],
"emmet.triggerExpansionOnTab": true,
"github.copilot.enable": {
    "*": false,
    "yaml": false,
    "plaintext": false,
    "markdown": false
},
"git-graph.defaultColumnVisibility": {
    "Commit": true,
    "Date": true,
    "Author": true
},
"javascript.updateImportsOnFileMove.enabled": "always",
"rust-analyzer.hover.actions.references.enable": true,
"[json]": {
    "editor.defaultFormatter": "vscode.json-language-features",
    "editor.tabSize": 2
},
"[rust]": {
    "editor.defaultFormatter": "rust-lang.rust-analyzer"
},
"vsintellicode.modify.editor.suggestSelection": "choseToUpdateConfiguration",
"diffEditor.hideUnchangedRegions.enabled": true
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Shwetha

Thanks for the contribution! Definitely can see some extensions I use here, textmate is an extension as well, I'm assuming?

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Walfal

Hi Shewtha,
No, it's inside the "editor.tokenColorCustomizations", "textMateRules" is for configuring advanced types of text

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yogini16

Thank you for sharing !!

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Best Codes

Informative! I love it.

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Shwetha

Thank you for the kind words!

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mohammadRahgoshahi
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Shwetha

Ohh this is cool! Can we pick specifically which ones we want here? Definitely have to try this out sometime.

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Pieces 🌟

This is a 🔥 config. Love this.

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Shwetha

Thank you! :D