A curated list of delightful Visual Studio Code
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- Table of Contents
- Official
- Syntax
- Migrating from other editors
- Using VS Code with particular technologies
- Lint and IntelliSense
- GitHub
- Productivity
- ARM Template Viewer
- Azure Cosmos DB
- Azure IoT Toolkit
- Bookmarks
- Browser Preview (deprecated)
- Color Tabs
- Create tests
- Dendron
- Deploy
- Duplicate Action
- Error Lens
- Toggle
- ES7 React/Redux/GraphQL/React-Native snippets
- Git History
- Git Project Manager
- GitLink
- GitLens
- Git Indicators
- GitLab Workflow
- Icon Fonts
- Import Cost
- Jira and Bitbucket
- JS Parameter Annotations
- Jumpy
- Kanban
- Live Server
- Multiple clipboards
- ngrok for VSCode
- Dotnet Core Test Explorer
- i18n Ally
- Instant Markdown
- npm Intellisense
- Parameter Hints
- Partial Diff
- Path Autocomplete
- Path IntelliSense
- Power Tools
- PrintCode
- Project Manager
- Project Dashboard
- Rainbow CSV
- Remote Development
- Remote VSCode
- REST Client
- Text Power Tools
- Todo Tree
- Toggle Quotes
- Typescript Destructure
- WakaTime
- Yo
- Timing
- Formatting & Beautification
- Uncategorized
- CodeRoad
- Code Runner
- Code Time
- Color Highlight
- Output Colorizer
- Dash
- Edit with Shell Command
- Editor Config for VS Code
- ftp-sync
- Highlight JSX/HTML tags
- Indent Rainbow
- iTerm2 Theme Sync
- Password Generator
- PlatformIO
- Polacode
- carbon-now-sh
- Quokka
- Runner
- Slack
- Spotify
- SVG
- SVG Viewer
- Text Marker (Highlighter)
- ESDOC MDN
- Interface generator
- JFrog
- Themes
- UI
- Syntax
- 2077 theme by Endormi
- An Old Hope Theme by Dustin Sanders
- Ariake Dark by wart
- Atom One Dark Theme by Mahmoud Ali
- Atomize by emroussel
- Ayu by teabyii
- Borealis Theme by Alexander Eckert
- Captain Sweetheart by ultradracula
- City Lights by Yummygum
- Cobalt2 Theme Official by Wes Bos
- Dracula Official by Dracula Theme
- Edge by Bogdan Lazar
- Eva Theme by fisheva
- Fairy Floss by nopjmp and sailorhg
- GitHub Theme by Thomas Pink
- Jellybeans Theme by Dimitar Nonov
- Material Palenight Theme by whizkydee
- Material Theme by Mattia Astorino
- Mno by u29dc
- Monokai Oblique by pushqrdx
- Monokai Pro by monokai (commercial)
- Night Owl by Sarah Drasner
- Plastic by Will Stone
- Nord by arcticicestudio
- Rainglow by Dayle Rees
- Relaxed Theme by Michael Kühnel
- Shades of Purple by Ahmad Awais
- Slime Theme by smlombardi
- Niketa Theme by Dejan Toteff
- People to Follow
- Resources for extension developers
- Online Courses
- Contribute
- License
- Official website
- Source code on GitHub
- Releases (stable channel)
- Releases (insiders channel)
- Monthly iteration plans
Language packages extend the editor with syntax highlighting and/or snippets for a specific language or file format.
- Arduino
- Befunge
- Blink
- Bolt
- Bond
- CMake
- Dart
- Dockerfile
- EJS
- Elixir
- Elm
- Erlang
- F#
- Flatbuffers
- Fortran
- Hack(HHVM)
- Handlebars
- Hive SQL
- Julia
- KL
- Kotlin
- LaTeX
- MATLAB
- Mason
- openHAB
- Parser 3
- Pascal, or OmniPascal (only for Windows)
- Perl HTML-Template
- POV-Ray
- Protobuf
- Ruby
- Scala
- Shaders (HLSL, GLSL, Cg)
- Stylus
- Swift
- VEX
- Wenyan
- Zephir
The VSCode team provides keymaps from popular editors, making the transition to VSCode almost seamless and easy.
Vim Mode - Relatively new, but promising extension implementing Vim features in VSCode
Popular Atom key bindings for Visual Studio Code
Popular Sublime Text key bindings for VS Code.
Popular Visual Studio key bindings for VS Code.
Popular Intellij IDEA key bindings for VS Code.
Like with Visual Studio and Resharper or Intellij IDEA
Microsoft created a collection of recipes for using VS Code with particular technologies (mostly Web).
Make sure to visit it at Microsoft/vscode-recipes
In case the awesome nirvana that is linting has not yet been unleashed upon you:
lint was the name originally given to a particular program that flagged some suspicious and non-portable constructs (likely to be bugs) in C language source code. The term is now applied generically to tools that flag suspicious usage in software written in any computer language.
Unlike some other editors, VS Code supports IntelliSense, linting, outline out-of-the-box and doesn't require any separate extension to run linter packages. Some linters are already integrated in VS Code, you can find the full list in the official documentation, Languages section.
- 1C/OScript - rich 1С:Enterprise 8 (BSL) language support in VSC - add syntax highlighting to *.bsl и *.os files in VSC, add IntelliSense and syntax helper for 1С lang
Syntax Highlighting, Snippets, Go to Definition, Signature helper and Code formatter
A language server for Bash
A debugger extension for Bash scripts based on
bashdb
Bash script snippets extension
- C/C++ - Preview C/C++ extension by Microsoft, read official blog post for the details
- Clangd - Provides C/C++ language IDE features for VS Code using clangd: code completion, compile errors and warnings, go-to-definition and cross references, include management, code formatting, simple refactorings.
- gnu-global-tags - Provide Intellisense for C/C++ with the help of the GNU Global tool.
- YouCompleteMe - Provides semantic completions for C/C++ (and TypeScript, JavaScript, Objective-C, Golang, Rust) using YouCompleteMe.
- C/C++ Clang Command Adapter - Completion and Diagnostic for C/C++/Objective-C using Clang command.
- CQuery - C/C++ language server supporting multi-million line code base, powered by libclang. Cross references, completion, diagnostics, semantic highlighting and more.
- C# - C# extension by Microsoft, read official documentation for the details
- C# FixFormat - Fix format of usings / indents / braces / empty lines
- C# Extensions - Provides extensions to the IDE that will speed up your development workflow.
- MSBuild Project Tools
- VSCode Solution Explorer
- .NET Core Test Explorer
Integrated REPL, linting, inline eval, test runner, and more. Powered by Cider & nRepl.
Peek or Jump to a CSS definition directly from HTML, just like in Brackets!
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stylelint - Lint CSS/SCSS.
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Autoprefixer Parse CSS,SCSS, LESS and add vendor prefixes automatically.
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Intellisense for CSS class names - Provides CSS class name completion for the HTML class attribute based on the CSS files in your workspace. Also supports React's className attribute.
- Go - Rich language support for the Go language.
- VsCode Groovy Lint - Groovy lint, format, prettify and auto-fix
- haskell-linter
- Haskell IDE engine - provides language server for stack and cabal projects.
- HLSL Tools - provides rich language support for editing HLSL files in VS Code
- Babel JavaScript
- Visual Studio IntelliCode - This extension provides AI-assisted development features including autocomplete and other insights based on understanding your code context.
See the difference between these two here
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tslint (deprecated) - TSLint for Visual Studio Code (with
"tslint.jsEnable": true). -
Prettier - Linter, Formatter and Pretty printer for Prettier.
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Code Spell Checker - Spelling Checker for Visual Studio Code (English). Also supports other languages via external extensions.
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Schema.org Snippets - Snippets for Schema.org.
- Vetur - Toolkit for Vue.js
A VS Code extension to debug your JavaScript code in the Chrome browser, or other targets that support the Chrome Debugging Protocol.
- Flow Language Support - provides all the functionality you would expect — linting, intellisense, type tooltips and click-to-definition
- vscode-flow-ide - an alternative Flowtype extension for Visual Studio Code
- tslint (deprecated) - TSLint for Visual Studio Code.
A VS Code extension to debug your JavaScript code in the Chrome browser, or other targets that support the Chrome Debugging Protocol.
This extension provides support for editing MATLAB® code in Visual Studio® Code and includes features such as syntax highlighting, code analysis, navigation support, and more.
Without MATLAB installed:
- Syntax highlighting
- Code snippets
- Commenting
- Code folding
With MATLAB installed:
- Automatic code completion
- Source code formatting (document formatting)
- Code navigation
- Code analysis, such as continuous code checking and automatic fixes
Linter for markdownlint.
All-in-one markdown plugin (keyboard shortcuts, table of contents, auto preview, list editing and more)
Adds emoji syntax support to VS Code's built-in Markdown preview
Rich language support for the PHP language: linting, debugging, intellisense, auto-completion, code formatting, refactoring, unit testing, profiling, and more.
These extensions provide slightly different sets of features. While the first one offers better autocompletion support, the second one seems to have more features overall.
- Laravel 5 Snippets - Laravel 5 snippets for Visual Studio Code
- Laravel Blade Snippets - Laravel blade snippets and syntax highlight support
- Laravel Model Snippets - Quickly get models up and running with Laravel Model Snippets.
- Laravel Artisan - Laravel Artisan commands within Visual Studio Code
- DotENV - Support for dotenv file syntax
To enable Emmet support in .twig files, you'll need to have the following in your settings:
{
"emmet.includeLanguages": {
"twig": "html"
}
}Smarty template support with formatting, folding, snippets, syntax highlighting and more.
- Format HTML in PHP - Formatting for the HTML in PHP files. Runs before the save action so you can still have a PHP formatter.
- Composer
- PHP Debug - XDebug extension for Visual Studio Code
- PHP DocBlocker
- php cs fixer - PHP CS Fixer extension for VS Code, php formatter, php code beautify tool
- phpcs - PHP CodeSniffer for Visual Studio Code
- phpfmt - phpfmt for Visual Studio Code
- POV-Ray - Persistence of Vision Ray Tracer (POV-Ray) Extension, includes Syntax Highlighting and Snippets for common POV-Ray scene elements, Render the current scene from within Visual Studio Code
- Python - Linting, Debugging (multi threaded, web apps), Intellisense, auto-completion, code formatting, snippets, unit testing, and more.
- TensorFlow Snippets - This extension includes a set of useful code snippets for developing TensorFlow models in Visual Studio Code.
- ReasonML - Intellisense, code formatting, refactoring, code lens and more
- rust-analyzer - Linting, auto-completion, code formatting, snippets and more
- Terraform - Syntax highlighting, linting, formatting, and validation for Hashicorp's Terraform
Provides GitHub workflow support. For example browse project, issues, file (the current line), create and manage pull request. Support for other providers (e.g. gitlab or bitbucket) is planned.
Review and manage GitHub pull requests and issues
Allows you to manage GitHub Gists entirely within the editor. You can open, create, delete, fork, star and clone gists, and then seamlessly begin editing files as if they were local. It's like your very own developer library for building and referencing code snippets, commonly used config/scripts, programming-related notes/documentation, and interactive samples.

