Five handy VS Code extensions

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VS Code is one of the best code editors out there at the moment. The reason it’s so popular is simply that VS Code provides every developer’s wants, including features that they didn’t even know they needed.

Here’s a quick list of 5 of my favourite VS Code extensions that just make my development life easier!

Liver Server: Liver Server lets you launch a local server with live reload for static and dynamic pages. Super useful extension, no more starting a server every time you make changes to your code.

VS Code Live server extension pic

Bracket Pair Colorizer: This extension allows matching brackets to be identified with colours. The user can define which characters to match, and which colours to use. This is really useful when you are working on a lot of code with lots of brackets.

Bracket coloriser VS Code extension

Live Share: This extension has everything you need to start collaboratively editing and debugging in real-time, including integrated audio and text chat. This provides you and your team with one-click installation, in order to begin pair programming, performing remote code reviews, driving interactive lectures, and more, without needing to leave Visual Studio Code.

Live share extension for VS Code

Prettier - Code Fotmatter: is an opinionated code formatter. It enforces a consistent style by parsing your code and re-printing it with its own rules that take the maximum line length into account, wrapping code when necessary. This is a great extension, it cleans up your code according to its default settings or your predefined settings.

Prettier Formatter VS Code extension

VS Code Icons: With over 5.5 million downloads, VS Code icons is a handy little extension to have. This simple concept makes working on multiple files so much easier. Each file type has its own specific icon which makes find file a lot easier as your eye is first attracted to the icon.

VS Code Icons extension

There are thousands of VS Code extensions available and this is just a very small selection that I use daily. They are a crucial part of my setup and make my development life a lot easier.

Let me know what are your must-have VS Code extensions.

Thanks for reading! 👋