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10 Useful VS Extensions for better productivity

Paul Ccari

Sep 5st ・ 8 min

Basic key Commands

You can open the VS Code by opening the terminal on the directory you would like, and run

code .

If you are not able to run the script, go to open the VSCODE , press Cmd + Shift + P and type 'code' Then select Shell Command: Install 'code' command in PATH and run it, and reload your VSCODE

Popular Themes & Icon Themes

It's a trend to a dark themes, you might heard that dark themes are better for your eyes, but that's not TRUE! Why? Dark themes are unestethic, so they look nice and they are trendy which is why everybody is working on dark theme. But the true of the matter is, if you want a theme that is the best for your eyes, and reading comprehension, go with dark text on a light background is best! So to change themes, you can do it by pressing 'Cmd + shift + P' and type Preferences: Color Theme Now late night would be great to work on dark themes

Favorites light themes:

  • Hop Light
  • Night Owl light
  • Noctis
  • min Light (Minimalist)

Favorites dark themes:

  • Night owl
  • Cobalt2
  • Dracula
  • You can also install slack, win95, SynthWave '94' for themes.

Icon Themes

  • Material Icons
  • Chalice Icon Theme (Minimalist)

Fonts

[Fira Code][https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode] Then enable Font Ligatures to make some cool connections on equals, check it out!

Recomendations

  • Turn off minimap, you won't use it and you'll save some the space.
  • Optional - You can move the sidebar to the right. Why? Because your eyes, wont jumping and follow the code to the right and left when you hide the sidebar.
  • Open Editors : Visible => set to O

EMMET for HTML & CSS

  • You can group section with (...) + (...)
  • You can use it on html and css
  • Use Emmet:balanceIn to select on parent wrapper
  • Wrap with Abrreviation
  • Update Tag
  • For images, know the size of it => Update Image Size

That’s it!

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