Favorite Extensions for VS Code

favorite_extensions.md

Useful Extensions for VS Code

1. ESLint - real-time code syntax checking and error highlighting based on ESLint configuration. I'm pretty sure this comes with VS Code by default, but if not, it's the first one you should install.
2. npm Intellisense - predictive auto-completion for your npm module imports
3. Bracket Pair Colorizer - Makes matching brackets and parens the same color, highlights unmatched brackets in red.
4. Prettier - code autoformatting
5. Git History - This one ships with the latest release of VS Code. AWESOME visual tools for viewing git history, jumping to specific commits, branching from a specific commit, git blame, and much more.
6. Git Lens - Kind of similar to the former, but it does something unique by showing in the editor on each line of code which commit and author that line came from.
7. TODO Highlight - Hightlights any comments in your code matching //TODO: or //FIXME: so you can see at a quick glance what you left for yourself to do later.
8. Live Server - Runs a web server from inside VSCode. If you run it in a directory with an index.html, it will load the web page. Otherwise serves the static files in your root directory.
9. Atom Keymap - Sets the VSCode shortcut keys to match what you're used to in Atom.
10. Sublime Text Keymap - Same as above. Perfect for allowing you to try out VS Code without having to learn all new hotkeys.