Effective Coding Workflow: My VS Code Setup

There are a lot of Code Editors, some are free and some are paid. Among all of them my favorite Code Editor is . It's free and has amazing features. I'm using it from the beginning of my web development journey. Visual Studio Code Today I'm going to share my favorite Code Editor settings, using for my web development. And I'm going to start with my Code Editor looks. After all look matters. 🎨 Theme: My most used VS Code theme is , currently I'm using this. Snazzy Operator This theme is based on and optimized for used with the font. I just love😍 this theme. hyper-snazzy Operator Mono ⭐ Some other themes I used before: - I used Oceanic Next (dimmed bg). Oceanic Next - I used Remedy Dark (straight). Remedy ✒ Font: Another important things for my Code Editor looks. The font I'm using for my Code Editor is . It's a free font with ligatures support. JetBrains Mono The font ligatures are a new format for fonts that support symbol decorations instead of normal characters like =>, <=. Before , I used . It's also a nice font. JetBrains Mono Operator Mono ⭐ Some other fonts I used before: - Supports ligatures. Operator Mono - Free & supports ligatures. Fira Code - Paid & supports ligatures. Dank Mono 🌟🌟🌟 Do you want to use my settings, I use for my VS Code fonts? In your VS Code press , type and open that file. Now replace below properties values with my given values. Ctrl + p settings.json { : , : , : , : , : , : , : , : , : , : } "workbench.colorTheme" "Snazzy Operator" "editor.fontFamily" "'JetBrains Mono', Consolas, 'Courier New', monospace" "editor.fontLigatures" true "editor.fontSize" 14 "editor.lineHeight" 22 "editor.letterSpacing" 0.5 "editor.fontWeight" "400" "editor.cursorStyle" "line" "editor.cursorWidth" 5 "editor.cursorBlinking" "solid" 📁 Icons: File Icons enhance our VS Code Editor looks. Mainly it helps us to differentiate between different files & folders by their given icons. For my VS Code I use two file icons : - One of the most popular icon theme for VS Code. Material Icon Theme - Currently using this. And I'm using Material Theme Icons Light variant. Material Theme Icons Extensions I Use Auto Rename Tag : Automatically rename paired HTML/XML tag, also works in JSX. Add entry into , in your file to set the languages that the extension will be activated. By default, it is and will be activated for all languages. auto-rename-tag.activationOnLanguage settings.json ["*"] : [ , , , ] "auto-rename-tag.activationOnLanguage" "html" "xml" "php" "javascript" 🟠 Bracket Pair Colorizer 2 : This extension allows matching brackets to be identified with colors. The user can define which tokens to match, and which colors to use. 🟠 Color Highlight : This extension styles css/web colors, found in your document. 🟠 CSS Peek : Peek: Load the css file inline and make quick edits right there. (Ctrl+Shift+F12) Go To: Jump directly to the css file or open it in a new editor (F12) Hover: Show the definition in a hover over the symbol (Ctrl+hover) 🟠 DotENV : Highlight key, value pairs in file. .env 🟠 ES7 React/Redux/GraphQL/React-Native snippets : This extension provides you JavaScript and React/Redux snippets in ES7 with Babel plugin features for VS Code. 🟠 ESLint : 'Linting' tool for VS Code - or Code checking tool. "Lint, or a Linter, is a tool that analyzes source code to flag programming errors, bugs, stylistic errors, and suspicious constructs." Wikipedia 🟠 Highlight Matching Tag : Highlight matching opening or closing tags. Styles I use for this extension: : { : { : { : { : , : , : , : , : } }, : { : { : , : , : , : , : } } } } "highlight-matching-tag.styles" "opening" "left" "custom" "borderWidth" "0 0 0 1.5px" "borderStyle" "solid" "borderColor" "yellow" "borderRadius" "5px" "overviewRulerColor" "white" "right" "custom" "borderWidth" "0 1.5px 0 0" "borderStyle" "solid" "borderColor" "yellow" "borderRadius" "5px" "overviewRulerColor" "white" 🟠 Image preview : Shows image preview in the gutter and on hover. 🟠 Indent Rainbow : This extension colorizes the indentation in front of your text alternating four different colors on each step. 🟠 Live Server : Launch a local development server with live reload feature for static & dynamic pages. 🟠 Prettier : Prettier is an opinionated code formatter. It enforces a consistent style by parsing your code and re-printing it with its own rules that take the maximum line length into account, wrapping code when necessary. Set below property value to be or add this property into your file to format code on save. true settings.json : "editor.formatOnSave" true 🟠 Pug beautify : Pug beautify plugin for VS Code. Press and run the command named to beautify your pug file. F1 Beautify pug/jade 🟠 REST Client : REST Client allows you to send HTTP request and view the response in Visual Studio Code directly. 🟠 Settings Sync : Synchronize Settings, Snippets, Themes, File Icons, Launch, Keybindings, Workspaces and Extensions Across Multiple Machines Using GitHub Gist. 🟠 TODO Highlight : Highlight TODO, FIXME and other annotations within your code. 🟠 Version Lens : Shows the latest version for each package in your package.json file. 📃 Terminal Setup My operating system is windows. I use Git via the command line, so I have a . And I use this terminal as my integrated terminal. My terminal settings are given below: Git Terminal : , : , : , : "terminal.integrated.shell.windows" "C:\\Program Files\\Git\\bin\\bash.exe" "terminal.integrated.fontFamily" "FuraMono Nerd Font" "terminal.integrated.fontSize" 12 "terminal.integrated.rightClickCopyPaste" true ✔ Useful VS Code Keyboard Shortcuts There are some important keyboard shortcuts, I use in my day to day coding life. These shortcuts enhance my productivity with Visual Studio Code. Go to File, You can move to any file of open solution/folder in Visual Studio code. Ctrl + P : Open terminal in VS Code. Ctrl + ` : Move Line Down. Alt + Down : Move Line Up. Alt + Up : Move Last Selection To Next Find Match. Ctrl + D : Trigger Suggest. Ctrl + Space : Copy Line Down. Shift + Alt + Down : Copy Line Up. Shift + Alt + Up : Reopen the latest closed window. 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