Top 10 coding extensions that will increase your productivity
Today we will discuss the top 10 best extensions that you should install and use for increasing your coding speed and productivity if you will like posts like this and want to read more posts in the coming future then share our posts with your developer friends. So, we must get motivated to bring more well-researched content for you.
Tabnine
Tabnine is the best AI code completion tool that will help you code faster. It gives you suggestions for code in which you only have to click and your code is done. As of now, millions of developers are using it for their projects.
It uses deep or machine learning to help you provide better code suggestions, it has smart compose for code, It is open-source and it supports all popular programming languages like JavaScript, Ruby, PHP, PERL, Go, TypeScript, etc IDEs and has a lot more features.
It also has very good customer reviews and many popular YouTubers like Mansoor codes and more are promoting it and I have also personally used it and it is awesome and it saves a lot of precious time of yours.
It is integrated with VS Code, Sublime, Atom, Android Studio, EMACS, VIM, and more code editors and it is used in popular companies like Amazon, Google, Microsoft, GitHub, and more. It has both free and paid plans and more than 3,000,000 developers have installed it. It is rated 4.5 stars out of 5 by 388 reviews, as of now.
Bracket Pair Colonizer
It is an amazing VS code extension by Coenradds. It matches the corresponding brackets in a code with the same color of the brackets which will help you solve errors as many times due to brackets only your code editor shows errors.
This is also very useful when you are working with complicated things like nested components, objects, or functions that all have brackets or parentheses and more. This VS Code extension makes it easier for you to understand your code.
Its advantages are its improved navigation and accessibility. If you are working with your friends on the same project it also makes it easier for them to understand others' code more than 7,000,000 people have installed it, it is free and has rated 4.5 stars out of 5 by 204 reviews, as of now.
Better comments
It is an amazing extension by Aaron Bond for writing human-readable and better understanding comments in your code, this extension is very useful for teams working on projects and for any person who is interested in reading the source code of your projects.
This extension saves a lot of time with descriptive, human-friendly comments for every developer. More than 2,000,000 developers have installed and are using it for their projects, it is free and has been rated 5 stars out of 5 by 127 reviews.
It allows you to categorize your annotations into Alerts, Queries, TODOs, Highlights, and more and it supports a lot of languages like Ada, AL, Apex, AsciiDoc, BrightScript, C, C#, C++, ColdFusion, Clojure, COBOL, CoffeeScript, CSS, Dart, and more.
It has shortcuts for comments like * for highlighting the text in a comment,! for errors,? for queries and TODO for todos, etc.
Auto rename tag
Auto rename tag is also a very useful VS code extension by Jun Han a Chinese developer. It allows you to inherent highlights matching tags and it also closes an opening tag if you forgot to close it. It also automatically renames tags if you change them.
This tag is supported in various languages like JavaScript, PHP, XML, and HTML. It is completely free and it has 3.5 stars out of 5 from 150 reviews as of now, and more than 8,000,000 have installed it.
Prettier
Prettier is also a very useful VS Code extension like auto rename tag. It is an opinionated code formatter that formats your code and keeps your code style consistent bypassing your code and reprinting your code taking your code length to the maximum length of the account and wrapping your code etc, making your code both readable and beautiful.
It is completely free, installed by 19,000,000 developers, and as of now, it has been rated 3.5 stars out of 5 by 318 reviews. It is supported by JavaScript, TypeScript, Flow, JSX, JSON, CSS, SCSS, Less, HTML, Vue, Angular Handlebars, Ember, YAML, Markdown, and more.
CSS Peek
CSS peak is an amazing extension for web designers and developers, it is developed and published by Pranay Prakash an Indian developer, more than 2,000,000 people have installed this very useful VS Code extension, it is completely free and it has 3.5 by 71 reviews as of now.
This extension allows you to peek at a CSS ID and class strings as definitions from HTML files to apart CSS files like loading a CSS file inline for immediate edits, goto for fast-moving through CSS files, etc, and it also shows definitions for attributes, etc whenever you will hover the mouse cursor or pointer on it.
It is exactly as same as the bracket text editor's CSS Inline Editors feature and could be your best friend for designing and CSS.
Peacock
Peacock is a very awesome extension by a developer named John Papa. More than 1,500,000 people have installed it and are using it, it is completely free and it has rated 4.5 stars out of 5 stars by 123 reviews as of now. Peacock changes the color of your workspace, it will make it more beautiful and attractive.
It is ideal when you have multiple VS code workspaces like you have installed VS code on your laptop and you have also installed it on a desktop then you can keep your workspaces' colors different or when you have different deprecation. You want to quickly identify if you are using Remote VS Code features, etc.
Gitlens
Gitlens is a VS Code extension by GitKraken. It is completely free and more than 13,000,000 developers have installed it and are using it for their coding. It has been rated 4.5 out of 5 stars by 547 reviews as of now.
It combines the power of Git with Visual Studio Code, allowing you to visualize and understand your code better. So, that you can track why and when it also seamlessly navigates and helps explore git repositories, it also allows you to gain precious insights, rich visuals, etc.
In simple, if you want to use Git features on your VS Code like I have mentioned above, then it is going to be a very beneficial and useful extension for Git developers.
Smart-multi cursor
Smart-multi cursor is an amazing extension from idanp. It is very useful and more than 6,000 developers have installed it and are using it. It is completely free and has been rated 5 stars out of 5 by 3 reviews.
If you are wondering why this extension has very less installations and reviews as of now, and after that also why I have included it then I have included it because it is very useful it allows you to use multiple cursors for writing the same code at a time, it also allows you to select multiple codes at a time for changing the code and more multi-cursor variations which you will find out when you will try it.
This extension saves a lot of time and code and I also personally use it for my projects popular programmers like Harris Khan (owner of the code with harry's youtube channel) are also using it.
Material Icon theme
This extension is also very useful and it is developed and published by Philipp Kief. More than 11,000,000 developers have installed it and are using it. This extension makes your VS code icons beautiful it allows you to select and change different icons for folders, text files, .html, .css, and different types of files that come by default with this extension.
So, if you want an extension that will make your VS code editor icons beautiful and identified then this extension is for you and it has 5 out of 5 stars by 244 reviews as of now, and it is completely free to install and at the end if you like to know about the best text editors then you can visit this post.
Conclusion
The code extensions that we have discussed today are going to be your best friend in your coding journey. They will increase your productivity and will help you to do and learn coding faster. Either if you are a beginner or you are a professional you should use them to grow your knowledge faster.
They are available for most code editors and for most platforms as we have discussed before. So, if you liked our today post then don't forget to share your loving feedback with us. Thank you!
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