November 17, 2020 | Jobayer Ahmmed
Visual Studio Code is a popular and easy to use code editor that many developers use. As a developer, you should know your tools properly. Writing code in VS Code can be more fun if we can use appropriate extensions. Today, I will talk about some popular extensions that can make our developer life easier. I normally work in Angular and Java, so I will focus on these two stacks along with git.
GitLens
GitLens provides many features, but I use this extension mainly for one interesting feature - blame. If you put the cursor in a line, GitLens will show the commit and author who last modified the line of the file.
EditorConfig
This plugin attempts to override user/workspace settings with settings found in .editorconfig files. If you want your file should be indented by 4 spaces instead of 2 spaces, you can specify that in the .editorconfig file for specific languages. For example, the .ts file normally indent by 2 spaces in the VS Code. But if you want indentation by 4 space, you need to tell that in the .editorconfig file.
Format Files
Sometimes we write code and format the files by hand which costs our time and energy. We can reconcile this problem by using the Format Files extension. After finished writing your code, you right-click anywhere in the file, select Format Document, and Format Files will do the work. This extension has a dependency. To let Format Files do its work, you need to add one or more formatters, i.e.
EditorConfig.
Language Support for Java(TM) by Red Hat
To format Java files by the Format Files extension, Language Support for Java(TM) by Red Hat needs to be added in VS Code. Besides, this extension provides many other features like IntelliSense, code navigation, etc.
Beautify css/sass/scss/less
To format and beautify CSS files using the Format Files extension, you need to add this extension in VS Code.