Visual Studio Code Plugins

Plugins I recommend

The following plugins help(ed) me in my daily work.

General helpers

• shift shift - Provide shortcuts shift+shift and ctrl+ctrl to call quick open and command palette without editing keybindings.json.

Software design and documentation

• AsciiDoc - Live preview, syntax highlighting and snippets for AsciiDoc.
• markdownlint - Markdown linting and style checking.
• PlantUML - Rich PlantUML support.

Language agnostic developer tools

• Docker - Build, manage, deploy containerized appls; one-click debugging of Node.js, Python, and .NET Core inside a container.
• GitGraph - View a Git Graph of your repository, and perform Git actions from the graph.
• GitLens - Visualize code authorship, explore Git repositories, comparison commands and more.
• Live Share - Collaborate using Visual Studio Code.
• Rewrap - Wrap text and code at a specific column, introduce rulers.
• Todo Tree - Searches workspace for comment tags like TODO and FIXME, and displays them in a tree view in the explorer pane.

CSV Viewer and Processing Plugins

• ExcelViewer - View Excel spreadsheets and CSV files in Visual Studio Code and VS Code for the Web.
• Rainbow CSV - Highlight CSV and TSV files, Run SQL-like queries.

JavaScript and TypeScript based languages

• CodeMetrics - Computes complexity in TypeScript / JavaScript / Lua files (GitHub: CodeMetrics).
• ESLint - Integrates ESLint JavaScript into VS Code.
• JS Refactor - Javascript automated refactoring tool for Visual Studio Code.
• Javascript Booster - Use code actions to do repetitive tasks for you.
• Mocha Sidebar - Sidebar easing mocha unit tests.
• StandardJS - Linter for JavaScript and TypeScript Standard Style with automatic fixing.

Other languages

• EV3 MicroPython - Programming LEGO® MINDSTORMS® EV3 using MicroPython.

Plugins I might try out some time later

These Plugins are interesting, but I have not tried them yet.

• 10 Must-have VS Code Extensions for JavaScript Developers
• GitHistory - Git History, Search and More.
• Node TDD - Auto-updated unit test statistics for JavaScript in the statusbar.
• Quokka - Rapid JavaScript / TypeScript prototyping.