Awesome Visual Studio Code Extensions

• Version: 1.0.5
• Extension Pack: View
• Last Updated: 2023-09-16 11:06:50AM

Intro

This is a curated list of the awesome must-use extensions I use every day :D

• All extension links are to the official Microsoft Visual Studio Code Marketplace
• Themes and icons are not included in the list
• I consider the activation time, filesize and usefulness all into account when considering adding new extensions

Extensions add or change functionality within Visual Studio Code and are free from cost.

The easiest way to install them is to use the in-app "extensions" section of Visual Studio Code left sidebar and search the exact names below (headers).

The links have more details about each extension, including any related keyboard shortcuts.

Tip: Be sure to disable any extensions, themes and icons that you may use in the future and remove extensions you won't use again. This will help keep Visual Studio Code's performance up to scratch, especially during startup.

Language Packs 🌐

Official Language Packs for non-US coders are available: Link

Language Packs allow the Visual Studio interface to show in your preferred language (for popular languages).

Recommended Extensions

For improved performance be sure to use workspaces and disable extensions that don't need to run within the workspace.

All below links are at the official Marketplace website.

Name	Description
Active File In StatusBar	Adds statusbar entry to show path for currently active file.
Auto Close Tag	Automatically adds HTML/XML close tag, same as Visual Studio IDE or Sublime Text.
Auto Rename Tag	Auto renames paired HTML/XML tags.
Better Comments	Improves your code commenting by annotating with alert, informational, TODOs, and more.
Bookmarks	Marks lines and jumps to them by reference.
Bracket Select	Quick selects code between brackets, support for (),{} and [], <>
DupChecker	Checks for duplicate lines and removes them if you need to keep the unique lines only.
Duplicate selection or line	Duplicate functionality like you are used to.
Error Lens	Improves highlighting of errors, warnings and other language diagnostics by showing them inline.
Filesize	Shows the current file size in the status bar.
Fluent Icons	Fluent product icons for Visual Studio Code.
Hide Comments	Hide/show comments in the code.
Highlight Bad Chars	Highlights bad characters such as No-break space ( ) and the Greek question mark.
Highlight Line	Highlights the current line in the editor.
Highlight Matching Tag	Highlights matching closing and opening tags.
Hungry Delete	Alleviates the issue of pressing backspace multiple times to remove the leading tabs or whitespaces in order to return to the previous end of the line.
Hungry-Backspace	Removes pesky whitespaces in one keypress and puts your cursor on the line above.
Indent line	Indents line(s) to correct level.
Indent-rainbow	Makes indentation easier to read.
Insert Date String	Inserts the current date and time according to configured format.
Log File Highlighter	Adds color highlighting to log files.
Markdown Checkboxes	Adds checkbox support to the built-in markdown preview.
Output Colorizer	Syntax highlighting for log files.
Paste and Indent	Paste some code with "correct" indentation.
Path Intellisense	Autocompletes filenames.
Permute Lines	Reverse, Unique, Shuffle lines as in Sublime Text.
Read-Only Indicator	Read-Only/Writeable indication on Status Bar.
Remove Empty Lines	Removes empty lines in selection or entire document.
Remove Tabs On Save	Convert all tabs to spaces on save.
Render Line Endings	Displays the line ending symbol and optionally extra whitespace when 'Render whitespace' is turned on.
Select-quotes	Select anything within quotes.
Selecta	Used for selecting lines that matches a regex. Line starts with, ends with or contains.
Selected Lines Count	Shows the number of selected lines in the status bar.
Smoothscroll	Enables smooth scrolling with pgup, pgdwn
Sort Lines by Selection	Sort lines based on the text selected in each line.
Sort lines	Sorts lines of text.
Text Marker (Highlighter)	Adds the ability to select text in your code and mark all matches. The highlight colour is configurable.
Text Power Tools	Has 140+ commands for text manipulation. Useful ones are padding, prefixing, suffuxing.
Texty	A set of text utilities. Converting, filtering, sorting, removing, splitting, and joining.
Whitespace+	Adds the ability to clearly mark whitespace characters (including trailing) and custom patterns.

Specialized Extensions

Name	Description
AutoHotkey Plus Plus	Provides AutoHotkey language support.
Code Runner	Run many forms of code.
Comment Divider	Divide your code by sections with styled separators.
Incrementor	Advanced increment / decrement actions for numbers, enumerators.
Markdown Shortcuts	Add shortcuts for Markdown editing.
PowerShell	Adds support to develop PowerShell scripts.
Python	Provides Python language support.
Rainbow CSV	Highlights CSV and TSV files in different colors and allows running SQL-like queries.
Read-Only Indicator	Adds a Read-Only/Writeable indication on Status Bar.
Selected Lines Count	Shows the number of selected lines in the status bar.
Shader languages support for VS Code	Syntax highlighter for shader language (hlsl, glsl, cg).
Workspace Name in Status Bar	Displays the workspace name in the statusbar.
tl;dr pages	Hover for commands using simplified and community-driven man pages.