My VSCode Setup

Since there are posts like this going around on blogs like The Zen of Programming (opens in a new tab) and DEV Community 👩‍💻👨‍💻 (opens in a new tab) so I feel like giving my 🔥 take.

VSCode: Themes

My current theme is Gloom (opens in a new tab) because it's pretty and has the best balance of contrast and coolness.

I also have the standard Monokai, Cobalt2 (opens in a new tab), nightowl (opens in a new tab), and level-up-vscode-theme (opens in a new tab) which is my second favorite.

Extensions

I have a lot of extensions. Let's just get that out of the way. I know I should delete a lot of them and I have. Just need to go a little further.¹:

Some of my favorite extensions:

Random Extensions

• Bracket Pair Colorizer (opens in a new tab)
• Dash (opens in a new tab)
• File Utils (opens in a new tab)
• vscode-spotify (opens in a new tab)
• WakaTime (opens in a new tab)
• Path Intellisense (opens in a new tab)

React/Redux

• React/Redux/react-router Snippets (opens in a new tab)
• Typescript React code snippets (opens in a new tab)
• ES7 React/Redux/GraphQL/React-Native snippets (opens in a new tab)
• React Pure To Class (opens in a new tab)
• vscode-gatsby-snippets (opens in a new tab)
• vscode-styled-components-snippets (opens in a new tab)

CSS/SASS

• Color Info (opens in a new tab)
• Color Highlight (opens in a new tab)
• SCSS IntelliSense (opens in a new tab)
• IntelliSense for CSS, SCSS class names in HTML and Slim (opens in a new tab)

JavaScript

• JavaScript Booster (opens in a new tab)
• JS Refactor (opens in a new tab)
• Promise snippets (opens in a new tab)

Git/GitHub

• Git Extension Pack (opens in a new tab) This consists of:
  • Git History (git log)
  • Project Manager
  • GitLens
  • gitignore
  • Open in GitHub / Bitbucket / VisualStudio.com
• Gist Extension (opens in a new tab)

Testing/Linting

• JavaScript Unit Test snippets (opens in a new tab)
• Jest (opens in a new tab)
• Prettier - Code formatter (opens in a new tab)

Final Thoughts

VSCode has come a long way from when I first tried it in 2015. I use it exclusively now, and am extremely happy with it and happy with my overall setup².