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Jakub Smetanka
Jakub Smetanka

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VS Code extensions NOT only for Frontend developers

Prettier - Code formatter

It is code formatter with support of many languages. It can automatically format the code right after save which save your time and increase productivity.
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Better comments

This extension is used for more friendly comments, you are able to customize tags by your own. Very easy configurations with support to plenty of programming languages.
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Angular Snippets

Snippets for Angular, Typescript, HTML.
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Intelisense path

Extension to autocomplete filenames.
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IntelliSense for CSS class names in HTML

This extension take care of completion of CSS class in HTML.
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Eslint

Javascript Linter extension.
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GitLens

This extension provide to you useful information from git on hovering of each line. Easy to explore repository, with possibility to be fast redirected to requested file in your Source Control Client (GitHub, BitBucket, ...).
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ThunderClient

Is lightweight Rest API Client. It is alternative to Postman not that heavy but still useful.
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Live Server

Helps to launch local development server with live reloading of static and dynamic pages as well.
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Tom Smykowski
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Jakub Smetanka

Thanks Tom, it looks good, I am interested about performance I hope its not slow down editor a lot.

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Tom Smykowski

I have currently about fifty rules and it does not impact performance. However, if it would just let me know.

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Joseph Bandawe

Thanks for the post. I recently installed Live Server and I can testify that it really is awesome. I have been useing the others you mentioned in this post and they are nice.