marketplace.visualstudio/ark-common-extensions-pack
For technology expecific extensions:
Ark's Angular Extensions Pack
Ark's Nx Extensions Pack
Ark's React Extensions Pack
Ark's Common Extensions Pack
This is a pack with the extensions I use and recommend to my coworkers, so we can activate/deactivate between workspaces easier.
For example, when working with react and angular projects the process of whitelisting workspace only extensions is kind of tedious.
FAQ
Why do I need all those extensions
Maybe. You can just disable any extension you don't want to use.
But I recommend you to try them.
- The ones with the icon 🔥 are my favorites!
- Those with the icon 🔒 are a must!
Having less extensions running at the same time will always return a better performance.
But remember that not all extensions are running in the background!: those "on demand" (command palette) extensions weight almost nothing performance wise.
- The extensions with the icon ⚙️ can be kind of heavy on performance
I'll try to explain why I use every extension and how to configure it, but feel free to add a new PR with any change proposal.
What about the extensions I've already installed
Those that aren't included will not be affected.
The ones that are included but were already installed will work as the were, but will be managed with the pack:
- If you enable the pack for a workspace all its extensions (actual and future ones) will be enabled for that workspace
- The same if you disable the pack.
- If you set a unique status for a extension included in the pack, for example you disable the pack as a whole but enable a pair of extensions, the individual settings will prevail over the pack ones.
Included Extensions
Core
- 🔥 Project Manager: To switch between projects/workspaces easily, and take advantage of the automatic extension switch by workspace.
- Docker: All the Docker related tools you may need, from management to syntax highlighting.
- GitLens: The git swissknife, with blame
- Jira and Bitbucket (Official): To interact with Jira without having to switch to the app/web
- ⚙️ Path Intellisense: For VSC to be able to autocompletes filenames
- ⚙️ Visual Studio IntelliCode: AI assisted code completions, official by Microsoft.
Linting and Syntax highlighting
- 🔥 Code Spell Checker: Multi language spell checker.
- DotENV: DotENV syntax support
- Jenkinsfile Support: Jenkinsfile syntax
- JSON Tools: JSON prettify and minify on demand.
- Markdown all-in-one: Markdown swissknife, with preview, table of contents...
- Markdown Checkbox: Adds checkbox/task support like at Github
- Markdownlint: Linting and style checking for md files.
- Rainbow CSV: Easier CSV edit by adding colors per column.
- SVG: All SVG needs in one extension! SVG Coding, Minify, Pretty, Preview...
- YAML: Autocomplete, syntax (with Kubernetes syntax support) and validation
- 🆕 Bash Beautify: Auto format bash scripts!
- 🆕 Shell Format: Formatter for a lot of dot files and else
- 🆕 Cloudfoundry Manifest YML Support: Basic YAML validation
- 🆕 Codeowners: Basic GH Codeowners file syntax
- 🆕 XML Formatter: Basic XML Formatter
- 🆕 NGINX Configuration Language Service: NGINX syntax amd auto complete
- 🆕 NGINX Formatter: NGINX auto format
Live Share
- 🔥 Live Share: To edit and debug code coop. A must for remote working.
- Live Share Audio: 100% integrated into live share and free! Audio for your live share sessions.
Tricks
- 🔥 change-case: A lot of tools to switch case style (camel, kebab, upper...)
- 🔥 Open Matching Files: Open all files that match any given string or glob
- 🔥 Sort Lines: Select a few lines and this tool will sort it alphabetically
- 🔥 Toggle Quotes: Select a string and with
cmd+' you can switch between ``, "", and ''
- 🔥 Turbo Console Log: Select a variable, then it will add a console log automatically. It can even delete all logs at once!
- Diff: Open a diff with any given file against the current file
- Search - Open all results: Open all files found
- Template String Converter: Automatically convert to `` when adding
${ inside a string
- VSCode Sort json: Sort json items
- File Utils: To remove, rename, etc a file from command palette
- Smart Column Indenter: To indent by columns
- 🆕 Copy Relative Path and Line Numbers: Easier share line navigation
- 🆕 Markdown Table Prettify: Easier md table format
- 🆕 Regex Copy or Cut: Copy/Cut/Delete by appliying regex! Try it, it´s awesome!
- 🆕 YAML sort: Like a JSON sort but for YAML
UI
- 🔒 🔥 Error Lens: One of my MUST HAVE! Just display linting/ts errors in a very obvious way! Impossible to miss!
- Open Matching Files: Input a glob, and open all matching files in
- Peacock: To colorize the vscode theme with a different color per technology/workspace
- Bracket Pair Colorizer: Every bracket pair will have the same color!
- Color-Info: Add color info when editing colors
- colorize: Add colors to MUY Theme colors declaration
- empty-indent: Removes empty indent on save
- Guides: Better guidelines
- 🆕 Better Shell Syntax: Better shell script syntax highlighter
- ⚙️ Image Preview: Add a preview of the svg/img you are importing if the route is correct
- ⚙️ Output Colorizer: Colorize vscode logs
Configuration
First of all you should install a good all-in-one font, and use it.
I'll recommend you the two I use, from the NerdFonts project: JetBrainsMono Nerd Font & DroidSansMono Nerd Font.
This fonts supports font ligatures and have been patched with all kind of icons to be used with advanced ZSH themes like powerlevel10k (this princess will be talk about in another castle)
Do you have brew? If not, lets start by installing it!
/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install.sh)"
Then...
brew tap homebrew/cask-fonts
brew cask install font-jetbrainsmono-nerd-font
brew cask install font-droidsansmono-nerd-font-mono
Now that we have brew installed for sure, let me talk you about how to install node correctly, just to be sure.
I hate the official installer and its documentation, and tend to avoid it at all costs. What I do like is n, a Node.js version manager, installed with brew. It will install the node versions you want to use at /usr/local, avoiding all kind of shenanigans.
Can anybody find me somebody to love?...
I use brew to install almost everything. Brew is love! 😍
Now, lets create a custom workspace settings file!
Let's do it the easy way:
- Open VSCode at your react project :)
- Open the command palette: cmd+shift+p
- Type
workspace json, and you will be able to open the current workspace
Now open the settings.json included, and copy it at your workspace settings!
As you can see I have added comments explaining what does every setting :)
When you have this options fulfilled, we can configure how to quick change between workspaces.
- First lest go to the extensions list and disable this addon
- Then enable it only for the workspace
Now go to the projects manager and select another project!
In that project you will see that the react extensions included in this pack are disabled!
If you open the react project again you will se that the react extensions and settings are automatically switched on again! isn't that cool? 😉
Do you want to be able to easily know what workspace are you editing? Take a look at the peacock extension, or just try at de command palette Peacock: Change to a favorite color 🌈
How to contribute
Do you have a extension you really like?
Just wants to provide some configuration or having any doubt?
Add a issue! 😉 👍🏻
