Web Extension Pack 2015

A Visual Studio extension that installs a short list of highly valuable extensions targeted web development.

See the change log for changes and road map.

Extensions

After installing the Web Extension Pack and restarting Visual Studio, the following extensions will be installed:

• Add New File
• Browser Reload on Save
• Browser Sync
• Bundler & Minifier
• Editor Enhancements
• File Icons
• File Nesting
• HTML Snippet Pack
• Image Sprites
• Image Optimizer
• JavaScript Snippet Pack
• Markdown Editor
• Open Command Line
• Package Installer
• Suggested Extensions
• Package Security Alerts
• Syntax Highlighting Pack
• Web Accessibility Checker
• Web Compiler
• Web Essentials 2015

If you already have one or more of these extensions installed, Web Extension Pack will not re-install them. It will simply just skip them.

Honorable mentions

These extensions are not included, but they are likely to be of interest.

• .ignore
• NPM Task Runner
• Client-Side Library Installer
• Open in VS Code
• SideWaffle Template Pack
• Text Generator
• Trailing Whitespace Visualizer

Installing

It doesn't take long to install the extensions. Probably less than a minute.

When installation is done you will be prompted to restart Visual Studio. After the restart, all the extensions are fully functional and ready to use.

Reset Web Extension Pack

If you've uninstalled any of the extensions installed by Web Extension Pack, then those extensions won't be installed again automatically.

To reset this behavior go to Tools -> Reset Web Extension Pack...

Suggest new extensions

If you know of any good extensions that you think would benefit web developers, then log an issue with the suggestion on the GitHub issue tracker.

Contribute

Check out the contribution guidelines if you want to contribute to this project.

For cloning and building this project yourself, make sure to install the Extensibility Tools 2015 extension for Visual Studio which enables some features used by this project.

License

Apache 2.0