Top 5 VS Code Extensions Every Programmer Should know

VS Code Extensions

Extensions offer extra features to your Visual Studio Code. Whenever you are writing code, these extensions will help you do things faster and in a more productive way.

There is a separate tab in the Visual Studio Code dedicated to extensions. In that menu, thousands of extensions are available and you can start using them for free.

If you are looking for published extensions, head to the VS Code Extension Marketplace.

Now, let’s talk about the top 5 VS Code extensions that you should know.

1. Bracket Pair Colorizer

Let's imagine you have lots of brackets in your program. You must be clear about which is the opening bracket and which is the closing bracket for a particular block of code.

Bracket Pair Colorizer gives the same colours for the opening and closing bracket to quickly understand where it started and where it ends.

2. Prettier

Prettier is a code formatter by which you can easily style your code in a uniform and consistent manner.

You can set it up so that every time you save your code, it gets automatically called and formats your code. Thus, you can save time while formatting your code.

3. Live Server

Live Server is very much popular among Web developers. When you are working with any HTML files, you get an option to open them with a live server. When you click on that, it launches a local server with a live reload feature both for static and dynamic pages. You can get rid of refreshing the browser after each time you save the code by using this extension.

Not only this but, as you make some changes to HTML code and save it, it will automatically show changes in your browser. It is a very useful extension as you can see live changes on your website.

4. Material Icon Theme

Material Icon theme does not help during you’re writing a code, but it Designs icons into your VS Code.

5. Live Share

Live Share is an extension that enables you to collaboratively edit and debug your code with others in real-time, shared terminals. Using the Live Share Audio extension, you can also speak with your peers.

You will need to follow certain steps to set up this extension. After that, you’re good to go bang with your peers.

Conclusion

This list will go long because there are so many good extensions available for Visual Studio Code. But these are some Top 5 extensions that will boost your productivity while coding.

Hope you find it useful. If so, then do share it with your fellow developers.