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Indent-Rainbow Tool for Making Your Code More Readableby@WCanirinka
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Indent-Rainbow Tool for Making Your Code More Readable

by Wilfried CanirinkaDecember 11th, 2019
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The extension colorizes the indentation in front of your lines of code alternating four different colors after every step. Some may find it useful while coding in different languages like HTML, Python and Nim just to name a few. It visibly marks well lines of where indentation is not a multiple of the tab size. The colors blend in perfectly with the VSCode color scheme. You can also configure your own colors by adding or tampering with the codes for the codes. The extension is available on the marketplace.com/items?itemName=oderwat.

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The article discusses the importance for using indent-rainbow to give some color to your code in HTML

The extension colorizes the indentation in front of your lines of code alternating four different colors after every step. Some may find it useful while coding in different languages like HTML, Python and Nim just to name a few.

It uses the current editor window tab size. It visibly marks well lines of where indentation is not a multiple of the tab size.

This will come handy to help you to find problems with indentation in some situations. 

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There is possibility to configure some aspects of the extension. You can also configure your own colors by adding or tampering with the codes for the codes.

You can find more information in the link below to achieve configuration: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=oderwat.indent-rainbow

The colors blend in perfectly with the VSCode color scheme.

If you like seeing your code looking neat and beautiful you should definitely try out this amazing extension that will boost your confidence in writing code.

Thank you for taking time to read through my article. My name is Wilfried full time student at Microverse. You can reach out to me also on Twitter.