Top Most Best 28 VSCode (Visual Studio Code) Extensions for Developers

Visual Studio Code is the most popular code editor in Web development. One of the best features is Extensions for a quick code build debug cycle.

Top Most Best 28 VSCode (Visual Studio Code) Extensions for Developers

Top Most VSCode (Visual Studio Code) Extensions for Developers

Visual Studio Code is the most popular Code Editor in Web development.

One of the best features is VSCode Extensions. I list all the VSCode Extensions which I have used for the development process Past Two years.

This will help all the developers to reduce the time and be more productive in the development process.

Top Most VSCode Extensions:

1. Auto Close Tag

This Extension Auto Close in the HTML-based tags.

AutoClose Tag Preview

AutoCloseTag

2. Auto Rename Tag

This Extension Rename all the HTML tags

renametag.gif

AutoRenameTag

3 . Highlight Matching Tag

It highlights the matching tag where the tag is closed. [red border]

Highlight matching Tag in VSCode Extension

HIGHLIGHT_MATCHING_TAG_EXTENSION

4. Beautify Extension

It Beautify javascript, JSON, CSS, Sass, and HTML in Visual Studio Code.

ctrl+shift+p -> beatifyfile[Another Method]

Beautify_Extension

5. Prettier — Code formatter

It formats various types of languages in VisualStudio code. this is also one of my favorites ❤️.

🖱️Rightclick + Format Document [Another Method]

Prettier VSCode Extension Preview

Prettier_Code_formatter

6. Bracket Pair Colorizer

This extension allows matching brackets to be identified with colors. The user can define which characters to match, and which colors to use.

Bracket Pair Colorizer Preview

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Update: Bracket Pair Colorizer is now deprecated due to improvements recently made in VSC core: henceforth settings such as "editor.bracketPairColorization.enabled": true and "editor.guides.bracketPairs": true are suitable enough.

7. CodeTogether

CodeTogether extension shares the code in a virtual session.

CodeTogether VSCode Extension Preview

Copy and paste the URL in the browser. Connect with your team.

CodeTogether

8.PolaCode -2020

Screenshot your Code.

PolaCode VSCode Extension Preview

PolaCode -2020

9. Live Server

Launch a Local Development Server to Preview a site.

Live server VSCode Extension Preview

LiveServer

10. Path Intellisense

Visual Studio Code plugin that autocompletes paths and names.

Path Intellisense VSCode Extension Preview

PathIntellisense

11. Git Lens

Gittens simply helps you better understand code. It shows when who and at which time the code has been changed and which line number also.

Git Lens VS Code Extension Preview

GitLens

12. Git Graph

View a Git Graph of your repository, and perform Git actions from the graph. Filter Options are also available. The Git graph Section Button is in the bottom left corner of the editor.

Git Graph VS Code Extension Preview

GitGraph

13. Material Icon Theme

Material Icon Theme Differentiate the folder and language icons specific colour and language logo.

Material Icon Theme VS Code Extension Preview

MaterialIconTheme

14. Thunder Client

Thunder Client is a lightweight Rest API Client Extension for Visual Studio Code. We check our API calls for all the methods and headers setup.

Thunder client VS Code Extension Preview

ThunderClient

15. Colorize

A VS code extension to help visualize CSS colours in files.

Colorize VS Code Extension Preview

Colorize

💡**PROTIP: If you want to see or show on meeting or recording a video which key you typing in the keyboard on the screen this shortcut will help you. ctrl+shift+p+developer screen mode

Developer Screen Mode VS code Preview

Developer Screen Mode VS code Preview

16. Github Theme

Github theme for VSCODE.If you are a GitHub Streak really loved it

Github theme VScode extension Preview

GithubTheme

17.Docs-Markdown

This extension provides Markdown authoring assistance for docs.microsoft.com (Docs) content, including basic Markdown support and support for custom Markdown syntax on Docs. We also now support some YAML authoring commands.

Docs Markdown VS Code Extension Preview

Shortcut key to view all the markdown elements: alt+M

*docs-markdown

Another VScode extension preview the markdown file view in the editor. Markdown Preview Enhanced

*docs-markdown

💡PROTIP: If you really want to add emoji’s in your markdown files search and copy the emoji on the website Emojipedia🔖

18.Jquery Snippets

Jquery Snippets extension has almost an updated jquery function.

JQuery Snippet Vscode Extension Preview

JquerySnippets

19.ES7 React/Redux/GraphQL/React-Native snippets

Simple extensions for React, Redux and Graphql in JS/TS with ES7 syntax.

ES7 React/Redux/GraphQL/React-Native snippets VS Code Extension Preview

JquerySnippets

Recently I started to learn Ruby on rails while writing code these extensions are very helpful for me.

The Extensions for Ruby on Rails Developers :

20.End Wise :

It automatically adds an end in the ruby language files.

Endwise VS Code Extension Preview

EndWise

21. ERB Helper Tags

A collection of ERB snippets to write Erb file-based HTML tags.

ERB Helpers Tag VS Code Extension Preview

ERBHelperTags

22.Ruby for Visual Studio Code

Ruby language support and debugging for Visual Studio Code

Ruby

23.Ruby on Rails

This extension for Visual Studio Code adds snippets for Ruby on rails.

Within a second all crud operations created simple commands.

Ruby on Rails VS Code Extension Preview

RubyonRails

24.Rails DB Schema

Completion provider for Rails DB Schema. It helps to write DB schema functions.

Rails_DB_Schema

25.Rails Routes

Completion provider for Rails Routes. It helps to execute route paths.

Rails_Routes

26.ERB Formatter/Beautify

Format/Beautify ERB files in your projects.

Additionally, we need to add a command in the settings.json file VisualStudio code editor.

"files.associations": {
  "*.erb": "erb"
}

ERBFormatter/Beautify

27.IntelliSense for CSS class names in HTML

CSS class name completion for the HTML class attribute based on the definitions found in your workspace.

IntelliSenseforCSSclass

28.Code Spell Checker

A basic spell checker that works well with camelCase code.

The goal of this spell checker is to help catch common spelling errors while keeping the number of false positives low.

CodeSpellChecker

If this Visual Studio Code Extension Article really saves your time give a ❤️ for me.

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