Top 20 VSCode (Visual Studio Code) Extensions for Developers

Dhanasekaran R
8 min readAug 21, 2021

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

Visual Studio Code is the most popular IDE 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.

Auto Close Tag
AutoClose Tag Preview

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 in VSCode Extension

4. Beautify Extension

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

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

Beautify VSCode Extension Preview
Beautify VSCode Extension Preview

5. Prettier — Code formatter

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

🖱️Rightclick + Format Document [Another Method]

Beautify VSCode Extension Preview
Prettier VSCode Extension Preview

6. 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.

Bracket Pair Colorizer Preview
Bracket Pair Colorizer Preview

7. CodeTogether

CodeTogether extension shares the code in a virtual session.

CodeTogether VSCode Extension Preview
CodeTogether VSCode Extension Preview

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

11. Git Lens

GitLens 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
Git Lens VS Code Extension Preview

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 in the bottom left corner of the editor.

Git Graph VS Code Extension Preview
Git Graph VS Code Extension Preview

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
Material Icon Theme VS Code Extension Preview

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
Thunder client VS Code Extension Preview

15. Colorize

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

Colorize VS Code Extension Preview
Colorize VS Code Extension Preview

💡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

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
Docs Markdown VS Code Extension Preview

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

Another VScode extension preview the markdown file view in the editor.

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

18.Jquery Snippets

Jquery Snippets extension has almost an updated jquery function.

JQuery Snippet Vs Code Extension Preview
JQuery Snippet Vscode Extension Preview

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

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.

End Wise VS Code Extension Preview
Endwise VS Code Extension Preview

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
Ruby on Rails VS Code Extension Preview

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"
}

If this Visual Studio Code Extension story really saves your time give a clap 👏🏻 for me.

Extensions Preview Images Added in my GitHub repo if you really like these extensions give a star my repo. I added the VScode setting.json file also.

Updated At Sep-06–2021:

IntelliSense for CSS class names in HTML

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

IntelliSense for CSS class names in HTML VSCode Extension Preview
IntelliSense for CSS class names in HTML VS Code Extension Preview

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.

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Dhanasekaran R

“It’s important to learn and not make the same mistakes, what’s done is done.”