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My top 5 favorite VSCode extensions

By Eli H. Schei on Monday, 19 April 2021, 18:08Monday, 24 May 2021, 9:28

There are dozens, problaby thousands even, of lists like this out there. But who doesn’t love a good list? I really enjoy reading about other peoples favourites, and most of my favorite VSCode extensions I have actually found from lists like this. Therefore I thought I’d make my own list, and maybe you will find a new favourite here.

Without further ado, here’s my list of top 5 favorite VSCode extensions.

1. Prettier

As the name suggests – it makes your code prettier. One simple shortcut (alt + shift + f) to format your files. <3

2. Better comments

Just like with prettier the name kind of says it all. This extensions will give you the ability to create better comments. By default you can mark a comment as important, alert, query or todo and they will get different colors. You can also create your own theme.

3. Visual Studio Intellicode

This extension gives you better intellisense. The makers describes it like this:

The Visual Studio IntelliCode extension provides AI-assisted development features for Python, TypeScript/JavaScript and Java developers in Visual Studio Code, with insights based on understanding your code context combined with machine learning.

4. Auto rename tag

You know when you are changing a <h1> to a <h3>, or a <div> to a <section> – this extension automatically rename paired HTML/XML tags.

5. Path Autocomplete

Provides path completion.

VSCode Pets

This doesn’t really do anything. But its cute. And fun.

One of my favorite VSCode extensions is VSCode pets.

Some other favorites

It was actually quite hard to limit this list to only 5 extensions, and it kind of varies from day to day which are my favorites. Here are some other ones that could have been on my list:

  • Easy icon theme
  • GitLense
  • LiveShare

What is your favorite extensions?


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/Eli

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Eli H. Schei

I'm a front-end developer who mainly work in the Microsoft 365-sphere. As a developer I read a lot of blogs. And in my experience I can read multiple different blogposts about exactly the same topic, and only one of them makes sense to me. Therefore I’m adding my voice to the mix, and hopefully one of my blogposts will be the one that makes sense of a topic for you. You can learn more about me here.

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