Web Essentials 2017

The easiest way to set up Visual Studio for the ultimate web development experience. Requires Visual Studio 2017 Update 8 or newer.

See the change log for changes and road map.

Extensions

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

• Add New File
• Browser Reload on Save
• Browser Sync
• Bundler & Minifier
• CSS Tools
• Editor Enhancements
• File Icons
• File Nesting
• HTML Tools
• Image Sprites
• Image Optimizer
• Markdown Editor
• Open Command Line
• Package Installer
• Package Security Alerts
• Project File Tools
• Razor Language Service
• Syntax Highlighting Pack
• Vue.js Pack 2017
• Web Accessibility Checker
• Web Compiler
• ZenCoding

If you already have one or more of these extensions installed, Web Essentials 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
• Text Generator
• Trailing Whitespace Visualizer
• Browser Link Inspector

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.