ifrah for Toru

Posted on May 4 • Updated on May 8

What Are Some of Your Favourite Visual Studio Code Extensions?

#discuss #productivity

Hi everyone!

So I've been using co-pilot for the nearly a year and it's been a real game changer for me. I definitely feel more productive and work quicker. Are there any other extensions or tools that you've come across and found to be particularly useful?

Since my projects span across different languages and frameworks, I'm all ears for recommendations on extensions for anything.

The extensions I'm currently using are below:

Top comments (35)

Paulo Henrique • May 4

There is only one that everyone should install marketplace.visualstudio.com/items...

ifrah • May 5

My days of talking to a rubber duck are finally over! Always wanted some company coding on those long days 🤣

Paweł Ciosek • May 5

🐈‍⬛❤️

Swaraj Singh ☸️ • May 5

Now that's what I was looking for 🙌🏻

Christophe Colombier • May 4 • Edited

About great extensions you didn't already mentions, I would recommend using the following ones:

Better Comments

Error Lens

ErrorLens turbo-charges language diagnostic features by making diagnostics stand out more prominently, highlighting the entire line wherever a diagnostic is generated by the language and also prints the message inline.

LTeX – LanguageTool grammar/spell checking

Indent-Rainbow

A simple extension to make indentation more readable

And something that was an extension and now a native settings

code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2021/0...

settings.json

{
    "editor.bracketPairColorization.enabled": true,
    "editor.guides.bracketPairs":"active"
}

ifrah • May 5

Thanks for the list. These look great!

Alexander • May 4

Ridwan Yunus • May 4

Broooooooo, these extensions are many

Alexander • May 5 • Edited

I just forget to delete some of them🤣🤣. But most of time I use a lot of themes

Rayyan Nafees • May 10

Use VScode Profiles to manage diff extensions for diff projects

Christophe Colombier • May 4

About GitHub copilot, did you try Codeium ?

I like it too.

ifrah • May 5

Not yet, I've heard a lot of great things about Codeium. I can't really fault Copilot too much yet to consider switching. I'm still on the look out for a free solid alternative though!

Rayyan Nafees • May 10

The Only great thing about codium is that it's free lol

Christophe Colombier • May 10

Haha. Touché

Hui🌻 • May 7

A new tool called MarsCode is free now, maybe u can have a try.dev.to/dancemove_marscode/marscode...

ifrah • May 8

Thanks! looks interesting

Artem Sapegin • May 6

Color Highlight

Highlights colors in the code.

Code Spell Checker

Spellchecker for Markdown, comments, variable names, functions, etc.

Emoji Console Log

Inserts console.log() statement with a random emoji and a variable (object, function, etc.) under your cursor to make debugging JavaScript and TypeScript code easier.

And Squirrelsong Light theme.

Christophe Colombier • May 6

About spell/style checker, I recommend using also

marketplace.visualstudio.com/items...

Based on github.com/crate-ci/typos

Typos and codespell work pretty well together. They will often provide same typos, but it's OK. But using them both will also raise issues one wouldn't.

For style checking I also use

marketplace.visualstudio.com/items...

And

marketplace.visualstudio.com/items...

It helps me to solve many grammar issues

Artem Sapegin • May 6

Thanks! I use LanguageTool as a standalone app, going to try these extensions...

Best Codes • May 5

This one has been BY FAR the handiest for me!
codeium.com
marketplace.visualstudio.com/items...

It is like GitHub Copilot but free. It has an in-editor AI chat, AI refactor, awesome AI autocomplete, and more!

Best extension I've ever found.

Other than that, I just use Prettier and some other formatting tools.

James Luterek • May 7

VSCode REST - marketplace.visualstudio.com/items...

Less known, but very useful.

Silver Phoenix • May 7

One of my favorite extensions.

marketplace.visualstudio.com/items...

Paimonchan • May 7

i would recommend using this theme
marketplace.visualstudio.com/items
?itemName=RobbOwen.synthwave-vscode

Stefan Schneider • May 7

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Christophe Colombier • May 7

Contextive seems interesting. I have never heard about it

Killbunny • May 10 • Edited

Other than the many awesome extensions many people has posted in comments,
For productivity, Highlight-words makes looking for text on log files so easy. And for fun, I can't live without background anymore