My ultimate VSCode configuration

#vscode

I used to love vim a lot but now a days I switched to VSCode because of the delicate balance between the UX and plugins.

The following is my settings.json file. You can probably use the same too.

Please do add your configuration too

Disabled Minimap - since we are writing modular code there is no need for this.

"editor.minimap.enabled": false

Autosave Enabled - AutoSave enabled so that there is no need for cmd+s always

    "files.autoSave": "afterDelay",
    "files.autoSaveDelay": 5000,

Exclusion - These are the large files and folders which will make VSCode cry . Please do add the same to your configuration also.

    "files.watcherExclude": {
        "**/.git/objects/**": true,
        "**/.git/subtree-cache/**": true,
        "**/node_modules/**": true,
        "**/tmp/**": true,
        "**/.git": true,
        "**/.svn": true,
        "**/.hg": true,
        "**/CVS": true,
        "**/.DS_Store": true,
        "**/node_modules": true,
        "**/bower_components": true,
        "**/dist/**": true,
        "**/log/**": true,
        "**/logs/**": true,
        "**/.fdk/**": true
    },
    "files.exclude": {
        "**/.git/objects/**": true,
        "**/.git/subtree-cache/**": true,
        "**/node_modules/**": true,
        "**/tmp/**": true,
        "**/.git": true,
        "**/.svn": true,
        "**/.hg": true,
        "**/CVS": true,
        "**/.DS_Store": true,
        "**/node_modules": true,
        "**/bower_components": true,
        "**/dist/**": true,
        "**/log/**": true,
        "**/.fdk/**": true
    },
    "search.exclude": {
        "**/.git/objects/**": true,
        "**/.git/subtree-cache/**": true,
        "**/node_modules/**": true,
        "**/tmp/**": true,
        "**/.git": true,
        "**/.svn": true,
        "**/.hg": true,
        "**/CVS": true,
        "**/.DS_Store": true,
        "**/node_modules": true,
        "**/bower_components": true,
        "**/dist/**": true,
        "**/log/**": true
    },

Tab Size - We can still be friends with 2 spaces for tab.Change this based on your source code.

"editor.tabSize": 2,

Final Json for VSCode


{
    "ruby.intellisense": "rubyLocate",
    "gitlens.advanced.messages": {
        "suppressShowKeyBindingsNotice": true
    },
    "workbench.statusBar.feedback.visible": false,
    "search.location": "sidebar",
    "window.zoomLevel": 0,
    "workbench.iconTheme": "vscode-icons",
    "files.watcherExclude": {
        "**/.git/objects/**": true,
        "**/.git/subtree-cache/**": true,
        "**/node_modules/**": true,
        "**/tmp/**": true,
        "**/.git": true,
        "**/.svn": true,
        "**/.hg": true,
        "**/CVS": true,
        "**/.DS_Store": true,
        "**/node_modules": true,
        "**/bower_components": true,
        "**/dist/**": true,
        "**/log/**": true,
        "**/logs/**": true,
        "**/.fdk/**": true
    },
    "files.exclude": {
        "**/.git/objects/**": true,
        "**/.git/subtree-cache/**": true,
        "**/node_modules/**": true,
        "**/tmp/**": true,
        "**/.git": true,
        "**/.svn": true,
        "**/.hg": true,
        "**/CVS": true,
        "**/.DS_Store": true,
        "**/node_modules": true,
        "**/bower_components": true,
        "**/dist/**": true,
        "**/log/**": true,
        "**/.fdk/**": true
    },
    "search.exclude": {
        "**/.git/objects/**": true,
        "**/.git/subtree-cache/**": true,
        "**/node_modules/**": true,
        "**/tmp/**": true,
        "**/.git": true,
        "**/.svn": true,
        "**/.hg": true,
        "**/CVS": true,
        "**/.DS_Store": true,
        "**/node_modules": true,
        "**/bower_components": true,
        "**/dist/**": true,
        "**/log/**": true
    },
    "editor.fontSize": 16,
    "editor.tabSize": 2,
    "emmet.includeLanguages": {
        "html": "html",
        "javascript": "javascriptreact"
    },
    "files.autoSave": "afterDelay",
    "files.autoSaveDelay": 5000,
    "terminal.external.osxExec": "iTerm.app",
    "terminal.integrated.shell.osx": "zsh",
    "editor.wordWrap": "on",
    "editor.formatOnSave": true,
    "editor.formatOnPaste": true,
    "editor.minimap.enabled": false,
    "editor.fontLigatures": true,
    "workbench.editor.highlightModifiedTabs": true,
    "explorer.sortOrder": "modified",
    "files.trimFinalNewlines": true
}

Top comments (6)

Ben Sinclair • May 5 '19

I used to love vim a lot but now a days I switched to VSCode because of its minimal implementation and plugins.

I'm not sure I follow you on this. How is VSCode more "minimal" than Vim?

since we are writing modular code

We are? We're lucky :P

I don't think I'd want autosave enabled in my VSCode because VSCode doesn't seem to be very good at having a persistent undo like Vim. I'd worry that I'd lose work.