VS Code Setup: An Update

A few people on micro.blog inquired about my VS Code extensions after I posted a screenshot of my editor.

VSCode: Themes

I was using SynthWave ‘84 with custom CSS for the glow, but unfortunately it breaks markdown highlighting and I write all my articles for all my blogs in VS Code.

I am currently using Material Theme, Palenight.

I also have the standard Monokai, Cobalt2, nightowl, and Synthwave ‘84 which is my favorite.

Extensions

I have a lot of extensions. 177 is the count now¹.

Some of my favorite extensions:

Random Extensions

• Bracket Pair Colorizer
• Dash
• File Utils
• Gatsby Snippets
• WakaTime
• Path Intellisense
• npm Intellisense
• Quokka.js
• Search node_modules
• Relative Path

React/Redux

• React/Redux/react-router Snippets
• Typescript React code snippets
• ES7 React/Redux/GraphQL/React-Native 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

Not much has changed since I first wrote about my setup last year. I am still an extension junkie², and VS Code is still my favorite editor.

Believe it or not VS Code is still pretty snappy on this 4 year old iMac, even with all those extensions. ↩

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