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My Favorite VSCode Extensions for 2021

As developers, we spend long hours on our machines, shuffling between different applications. VSCode is one of the most popular code editors. With VSCode extensions, we can add features, themes, languages, and more to enhance our development workflows.

 Here are some of my personal favorites

When writing code, on VSCode, there are many ways to keep our code synthetically correct and following the standard practice recommended by the general consent. One of the ways is to use a Linter. ESLint statically analyzes your code to quickly find problems. ESLint is built into most text editors and you can run ESLint as part of your continuous integration pipeline. - ESLint

Link: Visual Studio Code MarketPlace EsLint

Prettier is an opinionated code formatter, it automatically formats your code so you don’t have to go through the stress of code formatting

Link: Visual Studio Code MarketPlace EsLint

This is a must-have for Web developers working a lot with HTML and XML, CSS, JS, for example we might wanna change a div tag to h1, with Auto rename tag, it automatically changes the closing tag from div to h1.

Link: Auto Rename Tag

Highlight web colors in your editor

With Color Highlight, you get to preview colors right in VSCode.

Link: Color Highlight

If you use Git regularly, then GitLens is a must-have extension, In fact, it is a highly recommended extension for developers who work across teams. GitLens give you the capability to know who and when a code was changed.

Published Jul 19, 2021

Olaoluwa Salami is a Cloud/DevOps Engineer. Using this medium to, conceptualize my thoughts, put them into order, and lay them out.