Which VS Code Extensions do you find useful?

[skimread]

Recently installed VS Code and just overwhelmed by the amount of extensions there are.

Please share what you use and what it does or why you find it useful

 

[konfab]

As my company's resident VScode shill, I will gladly post my list.

1. GitLens - adds a bunch of useful stuff for Git. Specifically
   1. Adds blame lines to the editor
   2. Adds a sidebar that manages repos
2. Git Graph - supplements GitLens by providing a nice graphical history of commits.
3. Log Viewer - adds a bunch of dedicated file watchers.
4. Vs Code Action buttons - allows you to create dedicated buttons on the toolbar. I use mine to spin up the dev servers I need.
5. Typescript Hero - mainly use this to tidy up and organise imports
6. Prettier - code formatter
7. Sort Js Object keys - automatic sorting of javascript objects by key.
8. AutoDocString - generates docstring templates for python based on functions/classes
9. Formatting toggle - adds a little button to turn code formatting on/off
10. Version Lens - shows the latest version of each package when looking at the package.json files for npm/yarn

Not really an extension per se, but code-server is really useful, specifically the ssh-code package they ship. This allows you to install and run VS-code and all its extensions on a remote machine, then render the result via a chrome application via ssh. No more fixing production issue with vim/emacs/nano.

https://github.com/cdr/sshcode

 

[reactor_sa]

Python

 

[Johnatan56]

What type of software are you writing? HTML included? For that auto close tag and auto rename tag are a must.

For general, adding to Konfab's stuff:
- Bracket Pair Colorizer 2
- Jira and Bitbucket (Use this for being able to auto-checkout branches based on an issue and easy time tracking inside, plus doing something like "TODO: something" has a small pop-up of create Jira issue, so easy to create issues for later).
- Live Share (and also Live Share audio), remote into someone else's VS Code, you get to keep your keybindings etc.
- Material Theme.
- Remote SSH by microsoft
- Remote WSL but only if you actually use WSL
- Settings Sync so you can move plugins/settings around
- Sort lines
- TODO parser

Everything else I have is language specific. Pretty much always install language/framework docs and snippets.

 

[Arcsine]

I VS Code for Arduino, Python & Node programming.

The extensions below are quite useful for general use:
-Code Spell Checker (For the odd miss typed word.)
-Settings Sync (Allows you to sync extensions & settings across pc's. I move around a lot during the day)
-vscode-icons (For beautiful icons)

Language specific extensions:
-Jinja (For flask apps)
-Python Indent (helps with code formatting)
-Arduino
-Python
-TS Lint
-HTML CSS Support