This extension pack contains all essential extensions that I find myself using regardless of what language I am working with. Enjoy friends and community!
- Material Icon Theme - Changes the icons of files & folders in VSCode with icons unique to the file type.
- IntelliCode - Adds autocompletion suggestions that you can expect from most IDE's.
- IntelliCode Api Usage Examples - Improves IntelliCode by adding examples for the usage of API's via GitHub.
- Path Intellisense - Improves IntelliCode by adding autocomplete for path names of files you are working with.
- Better Comments - Adds colors to comments and uses different colors to represent different types of comments.
- TODO Highlight - Highlights all TODO's in comments so you can never miss them.
- Error Lens - Shows warnings and errors in line like a comment.
- Prettier - Code Formatter - Essential code formatter for most languages.
- Tabout - Lets you escape quotes brackets and more by pressing the Tab key.
Note: IntelliCode is not to be confused with GitHub Copilot.
For official information and learning more about any extensions not further explained here by me, please visit their official marketplace pages by clicking on the respective extension name in the list provided above.
Error Lens changes the way you interact with Errors on VS Code. Instead of having to stare at the "Problems" Pane in VS Code anytime you need to identify a error/warning and where it resides, Error Lens lets you see the culprits directly in the respective lines in your code where the error/warning was raised. It offers distinctive coloring for Errors and Warnings and allows you to read the reason for the Error/Warning in the same line.
Here's an example of an error in some Python code:
