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Become a VS Code Ninja with these Extensions and Tools [2020]

Vikrant Negi on June 26, 2020

VS Code is undoubtedly the best editor out there especially when it comes to writing javascript. It is fast, feature rich and has huge pool of exte...

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Robson Sobral • Jun 27 '20 • Edited

Here we go...

Calculate, to make in code arithmetic calculations
Code Time to keep track of the time spent in every workspace / project
Editor Config to make all developers in project to respect IDE configuration rules
Faker to generate fake data
File Utils to move, rename, duplicate or delete files in a better way
GitLens

Vikrant Negi • Jun 27 '20

I'll definitely check these out. thanks

Roberto Tonino • Jun 28 '20

Is it just me or the Bracket Pair Colorizer extension heavily impacts editor performance? I’m talking about files with at least 4000 LOC, and obviously about using it with other extensions, like GitLens, that depend on the written code

Vikrant Negi • Jun 28 '20

I never came across such issue. Not sure if others have the same issue or not.

Jérémy Crestel • Jul 1 '20

There is a v2 for Bracket Pair Colorizer that uses the same bracket parsing engine as VSCode, greatly increasing speed and accuracy.

Vikrant Negi • Jul 1 '20

this is great news. I'm installing new version.

Roberto Tonino • Jul 2 '20

@j_crestel yeah already know that, I was talking about that version (but I didn't mention it, I'm sorry)

Roberto B. • Jun 27 '20

Great post! thank you for sharing!
I used to work with GitHub Actions (based on YAML file) and I would suggest also a YAML extension: dev.to/robertobutti/vscode-how-to-...

Vikrant Negi • Jun 27 '20 • Edited

nice to know that about it. Thanks for sharing.

Gingerbreadfork • Jun 27 '20

Thanks for the post, Bracket Pair Colorizer turned out very useful for a problem I was having yesterday which resulted in a lot more attention to detail than will be required now.

Eitan Worcel • Jun 27 '20

Nice list, thanks for sharing.
As security is usually not top mind for most, we've recently contributed this plugin hclsw.co/CodeSweep to the VSCode community, aiming to make it easy for developers to secure their applications. I'll be interested to hear your thoughts.

Vikrant Negi • Jun 27 '20

ok i'll check it out as well. thanks

Aron Johnson • Jun 30 '20

Thanks! Bracket Pair Colorizer should be super handy when I'm working with JSON files.

I'll echo what some others have already mentioned. GitLens and the YAML extension by RedHat are both great.

Arman Khan • Jun 27 '20

Great post! Didn't know about some of it. Will checkout

Vikrant Negi • Jun 28 '20

great.

Mohammed Nabeel • Jun 27 '20

Cool. Thanks for valuable info.

Fiqri Syah Redha • Jun 27 '20

Nice! I've installed almost all of them.

Vikrant Negi • Jun 28 '20

great.

Tresor • Jun 27 '20

Thnks for this article

Vikrant Negi • Jun 28 '20

thanks

Chana Reynolds • Jun 30 '20

This is a great list! I’m excited to try a few out.
Have you heard of the LiveShare plugin for pair coding? It’s pretty dope. ☺️

Vikrant Negi • Jun 30 '20

Yeah, I'm aware of the plugin but I've never used it. But it good for people who do pair coding. Thanks for sharing.

Ankur K • Dec 30 '21

Or purchase JetBrains WebStorm :)

Rohit Prasad • Jul 2 '20

Thanks for Import Cost.

ilterkavlak • Jun 27 '20 • Edited

It also worth to mention the thundra plugin where you can remotely debug your AWS lambda function docs.thundra.io/ide-integrations/v.... This looks also really cool

Abhishek keshri • Jun 28 '20

That was amazing!

Vikrant Negi • Jun 28 '20

thanks bro.