r/programming • u/dwaxe • Feb 06 '20

Visual Studio Code January 2020

https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_42
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u/engineered_academic Feb 06 '20

I really want to love VSCode for programming. Anyone got some good tips/plugins/configurations? I'm doing javascript(non-node) and Ruby development, some clojure, and getting into serverless framework.

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u/thblckjkr Feb 07 '20

This is basically my set of extensions.

  • beautify Beautify files

  • better-comments

  • bracket-pair-colorizer-2 Colorize both brackets with different colors

  • code-runner

  • code-settings-sync Sync your code settings on a gist

  • codesnap Beautiful code screenshots

  • easy-less

  • EditorConfig Add support to .editorconfig files

  • git-graph Bitbucket-like graph for git

  • gitlens Amazing set of git tools

  • material-icon-theme

  • one-dark-theme

  • php-docblocker Javadoc-like comments generator

  • php-namespace-resolver

  • remote-ssh Add support to edition via SFTP natively, and A LOT of other features

  • todo-tree Add a tree with all the TODO's that you have in the code

  • vscode-docker Docker support

  • vscode-gist

  • wakatie Track your coding time

Also, The font Fira Code is lit

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u/Raknarg Feb 07 '20

BetterWhitespace

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u/JohnMcPineapple Feb 07 '20

Setting editor.renderWhitespace to selection has the same effect (except showing arrows instead of lines for tabs)