4 Visual Studio Code Extensions to Boost Your Productivity in Flutter

Make Your Life Easier and Let the Community Help You

For a long time, IDE’s are not simply someplace where you can put your code in, click a button, and generate a working application. No, IDEs have become more and more efficient in aiding you during your programming journey.

Visual Studio Code is no exception. With its community-supported extensions, you can turn VS Code into your code factory.

In this blog, I want to go over four specific extensions that have helped me tremendously during my work on Notaria.

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1. Bracket Pair Colorizer 2

Because everything is a widget in Flutter, it heavily relies on indentations. As such, the code can get quite unclear. Especially front-end code — the UI, for example — tends to get exorbitantly long with a heap of brackets closing every widget.

Code example for indentations. Image by author.

Now, imagine adding a new widget or deleting an already existing one. Good luck finding the right bracket. Admittedly with time, it gets easier to recognize the pattern of the brackets and quickly adjust the…