10 VS Code Extensions Every Developer Needs
Boost your productivity with these essential VS Code extensions for code quality, debugging, and developer experience.
Visual Studio Code is powerful out of the box, but the right extensions can supercharge your development workflow. Here are the extensions I install on every new machine.
Code Quality
- ESLint - Catch errors and enforce code style automatically
- Prettier - Format code consistently across your team
- Error Lens - See errors inline, right where they occur
- SonarLint - Advanced code quality and security analysis
Productivity Boosters
- GitLens - Git supercharged with blame annotations and history
- Path Intellisense - Autocomplete filenames and paths
- Auto Rename Tag - Automatically rename paired HTML/JSX tags
- Bracket Pair Colorizer - Match brackets with colors at a glance
Collaboration
- Live Share - Real-time collaborative editing
- Thunder Client - REST API testing without leaving VS Code
Don't install every extension you find. Each extension adds overhead. Curate your toolkit based on what you actually use daily.
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