This post was originally posted to my blog.
Since there are posts like this going around on blogs like The Zen of Programming and DEV Community 👩‍💻👨‍💻 so I feel like giving my 🔥 take.
VSCode: Themes
My current theme is Gloom because it's pretty and has the best balance of contrast and coolness.
I also have the standard Monokai, Cobalt2, nightowl, and level-up-vscode-theme which is my second favorite.
Extensions
I have a lot of extensions. Let's just get that out of the way (I just installed 6 more while writing this).
Some of my favorite extensions:
Random Extensions
React/Redux
- React/Redux/react-router Snippets
- Typescript React code snippets
- ES7 React/Redux/GraphQL/React-Native snippets
- React Pure To Class
- vscode-gatsby-snippets
- vscode-styled-components-snippets
CSS/SASS
- Color Info
- Color Highlight
- SCSS IntelliSense
- IntelliSense for CSS, SCSS class names in HTML and Slim
JavaScript
Git/GitHub
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Git Extension Pack
This consists of:
- Git History (git log)
- Project Manager
- GitLens
- gitignore
- Open in GitHub / Bitbucket / VisualStudio.com
- Gist Extension
Testing/Linting
Final Thoughts
VSCode has come a long way from when I first tried it in 2015. I use it exclusively now, and am extremely happy with it and happy with my overall setup, though I could get rid of some of these extensions.