What VS Code extensions am I using?

I like to keep VS Code lightweight as much as possible, therefore I don’t have that many extensions – only the ones that are really cannot live without.

The more extensions you have, the more memory it will consume, the more time to boot up vs code.

I should also add that my main editor is not visual studio code but Webstorm. I mainly use VS Code for small edits on some JSON or small JavaScript files. Sometimes I may also use VS Code for starting up small side projects, when I want to try something new or some ideas from a blog post I just read.

I love VS Code and I like to keep it ready for hacking. 😊

1. ESLint – This one integrates ESLint into VS Code.
2. EditorConfig for VS Code – Adds support for .editorconfig files.
3. EditorConfigGenerator – I am lazy enough I can’t open a new tab and search for a good default .editorconfig so I use this extension to generate the defaults for me.
4. markdownlint – As I’m usually editting a lot of .md files, this extension informs me about lint errors.
5. npm – Adds some nice npm scripts options to the command pallete.
6. npm Intellisense – Adds intellisense on import statements.
7. Prettier – Code formatter – I really like prettier defaults.
8. Vetur – Vue tools for VS Code. Most of the time I’m working with Vue, this extension adds a lot of useful snippets as well as syntax highlighting.
9. GitLens – Git supercharged – Helps to visualize code changes.

And that’s it! This is the minimum I need to make VS Code work just as I want for my needs. I used to have a lot more, I even lost track of them, until VS became so slow, I had to revise all of them, removing all the non essential ones.

What are the VS Code extensions you can’t live without?

Thanks for reading 👋