Since there are posts like this going around on blogs like The Zen of Programming and DEV Community 👩‍💻👨‍💻 so I feel like giving my 🔥 take.

VSCode: Themes

My current theme is Gloom because it’s pretty and has the best balance of contrast and coolness.

I also have the standard Monokai, Cobalt2, nightowl, and level-up-vscode-theme which is my second favorite.

Extensions

I have a lot of extensions. Let’s just get that out of the way. I know I should delete a lot of them and I have. Just need to go a little further.¹:

Some of my favorite extensions:

Random Extensions

• Bracket Pair Colorizer
• Dash
• File Utils
• vscode-spotify
• WakaTime
• Path Intellisense

React/Redux

• React/Redux/react-router Snippets
• Typescript React code snippets
• ES7 React/Redux/GraphQL/React-Native snippets
• React Pure To Class
• vscode-gatsby-snippets
• vscode-styled-components-snippets

CSS/SASS

• Color Info
• Color Highlight
• SCSS IntelliSense
• IntelliSense for CSS, SCSS class names in HTML and Slim

JavaScript

• JavaScript Booster
• JS Refactor
• Promise snippets

Git/GitHub

• Git Extension PackThis consists of:
• Git History (git log)
• Project Manager
• GitLens
• gitignore
• Open in GitHub / Bitbucket / VisualStudio.com
• Gist Extension

Testing/Linting

• JavaScript Unit Test snippets
• Jest
• Prettier - Code formatter

Final Thoughts

VSCode has come a long way from when I first tried it in 2015. I use it exclusively now, and am extremely happy with it and happy with my overall setup².

I just installed 6 more while writing this. ↩

Though I could get rid of some of these extensions. ↩