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Essentials

Essentials

Braden Watkins

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Language agnostic, essential extensions to make development within vscode easier and more delightful
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Essentials

An extension pack that contains all of the vscode extensions that I prefer to use to make vscode a delightful editor.

dark-plus-syntax

VS Code's default dark theme, but just a little bit better.

GitLens

Supercharge the Git capabilities built into Visual Studio Code — Visualize code authorship at a glance via Git blame annotations and code lens, seamlessly navigate and explore Git repositories, gain valuable insights via powerful comparison commands, and so much more

Output Colorizer

Syntax highlighting for log files

Path Autocomplete

Provides path completion for visual studio code.

Prettier

VS Code plugin for prettier/prettier

Settings Sync

Synchronize Settings, Snippets, Themes, File Icons, Launch, Keybindings, Workspaces and Extensions Across Multiple Machines Using GitHub Gist.

Snippet Creator

Create snippets from selection

Sort Lines

Sorts lines of text

Spell Checker

Spelling checker for source code

VSCode Simpler Icons

A fork from vscode-great-icons. With fewer different icons and some angular icons.

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