Useful Visual Studio Code Extensions

Being a Software Engineer and frequently working with code, its important to make your environment easy to work with. In this article I will share the best extensions to use on VSC that I personally utilize for successful projects.

Bracket Pair Colorizer

Working with thousands of lines of code and nested objects and arrays can lead to confusion pertaining to which brackets belongs to the object and when the object ends. As you may guess Bracket Pair Colorizer came to solve this problem to match brackets and make your code easy for the eye to read and catch typos.

Prettier — Code formatter

This extension came to solve a very annoying problem. When you have thousands of lines, it can be hard to format your code. This extension will make your life easier by not having to worry anymore about formatting your code and making it look visually appealing.

Live Server

Working with vanilla JavaScript, Html, and CSS, you always need to to refresh browsers to see changes. That’s a bit annoying and can consume extra time. Well, Live Server is here to watch your code and refresh browsers automatically for you.

Live Share

Being a software engineer, you probably work with other people on shared projects. Collaboration with others is the best way to work quickly and Live Share uses real time problem-solving. It explain code for the whole team to understand.