Supercharge Your Development: The Top VSCode Extensions for JavaScript Web Developers
As a JavaScript web developer, you may spend countless hours writing code in Visual Studio Code (VSCode). While the basic functionality of the editor is excellent, the real power of VSCode lies in its extensions. Here, we’ll take a look at some of the best VSCode extensions for JavaScript web developers.
★ Auto Close Tag
Automatically close HTML tags (works on JSX)
★ Auto Import
Automatically finds, parses and provides code actions and code completion for all available imports
★ Auto Rename Tags
Automatically rename paired HTML tags (works on JSX)
★ Better Comments
Create more human-friendly comments in your code
★ Better TOML
Better TOML Language support
★ Bookmarks
Allows you to mark lines in your code, which helps you navigate through your code
★ Code Spell Checker
Convenient to make no spelling mistakes (work with many languages with the help of add-ons)
★ Dev Containers
Lets you use a Docker as a full-featured development environment
★ Docker
Helps you to build, manage, and deploy containerized applications from VSCode
★ DotENV
Support for dotenv file syntax
★ Error Lens
Improve highlighting of errors, warnings and other language diagnostics
★ ES7+ React/Redux/React-Native snippets
Syntax support for React, React-Native and Redux in JS/TS with ES7+
★ ESLint
Integrates ESLint JavaScript into VS Code
★ Git Blame
Examine the contents of a file line by line, and know when each line was last modified and by whom
★ GitHub Copilot (not free💰)
The best AI pair programmer enabled globally
★ GitHub Pull Requests and Issues
Pull Request and Issue Provider for GitHub
★ Gitignore
Assists you in working with .gitignore files
★ GitLab Workflow
Integrates GitLab into Visual Studio Code
★ GitLens — Git supercharged
Unlocks the full power of Git in VS Code
★ GraphQL: Language Feature Support
Adds autocompletion, validation, go to definition, hover, outline and more
★ GraphQL: Syntax Highlighting
Adds syntax highlighting support for .graphql & embedded support
★ HTML CSS Support
CSS Intellisense for HTML
★ Import Cost
Display import/require package size in the editor
★ IntelliCode
Provides AI-assisted development features in Visual Studio Code, with insights based on understanding your code context combined with machine learning
★ IntelliCode API Usage Examples
See relevant code examples from GitHub for over 100K different APIs right in your editor
★ JavaScript (ES6) code snippets
Code snippets for JavaScript in ES6 syntax
★ Live Preview
Hosts a local server for you to preview your web projects on
★ Live Share
Allows you to collaboratively edit and debug with others in real time
★ Local History
Maintains local history of files. At any time, you can compare a file with any older version from the history
★ Material Icon Theme
Material Design Icons for Visual Studio Code
★ MDX
Language support for MDX
★ MongoDB for VSCode
Makes it easy to work with MongoDB, whether your own instance or in MongoDB Atlas.
Note: No extensions for working with SQL databases in this list because I think Table Plus is more efficient/powerful.
★ Npm Intellisense
Autocompletes npm modules in import statements
★ Open in browser
Allows you to open the current file in your default browser or application
★ Path Intellisense
Autocompletes filenames
★ Pnpm
Pnpm commands for VSCode
★ Prettier — Code formatter
Adds a code formatter to VSCode using Prettier
★ Pretty TypeScript Errors
Make TypeScript errors prettier and more human-readable in VSCode
★ Prisma
Adds syntax highlighting, formatting, auto-completion, jump-to-definition and linting for .prisma files
★ Remote — SSH
Open any folder on a remote machine using SSH. Comes with Remote — SSH: Editing Configuration Files and Remote Explorer.
★ Tailwind CSS IntelliSense
Intelligent Tailwind CSS tooling for VS Code
★ TODO Highlight
Highlights TODOs, FIXMEs, and any keywords, annotations.
★ Todo Tree
Show TODO, FIXME, etc. comment tags in a tree view
★ Tokyo Night 🗼
A clean Visual Studio Code theme that celebrates the lights of Downtown Tokyo at night.
★ Turbo Console Log
Automating the process of writing meaningful log messages.
★ YAML
YAML Language Support by Red Hat, with built-in Kubernetes syntax support
★ 1Password (not free💰)
Provides you with a set of tools to integrate your development workflow with 1Password
Conclusion
These are just a few of the best VSCode extensions for React/JavaScript web developers. With these extensions, you can improve your productivity, write better code, and make your development experience more enjoyable. While these extensions are not the only ones available, they are some of the most popular and useful for React/JavaScript web developers. Try them out and see how they can improve your workflow!
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