Angular Essential Extension Pack
A curated collection of Visual Studio Code extensions designed to enhance and streamline Angular development for professionals and teams.
Why This Pack?
Developing Angular applications requires efficient management of code generation, linting, formatting, navigation, and testing. The Angular Essential Extension Pack brings together the most widely adopted and reliable Visual Studio Code extensions into a single, cohesive bundle. This enables both teams and individual developers to:
- Scaffold and generate Angular artifacts directly from the editor.
- Maintain consistent code quality and formatting standards.
- Navigate and refactor templates, styles, and TypeScript code with ease.
- Integrate testing frameworks and Git workflows seamlessly.
- Minimize context switching and configuration overhead.
Getting Started
To begin using the Angular Essential Extension Pack, follow these steps:
- Install Visual Studio Code.
- Open the Extensions view (
Ctrl+Shift+X on Windows/Linux or ⌘+Shift+X on macOS).
- Search for Angular Essential Extension Pack or install it directly from the Visual Studio Marketplace.
- Reload Visual Studio Code to activate all included extensions.
Key Features
- Angular File Generator: Scaffold components, services, modules, guards, and other schematics directly from the Explorer context menu.
- Angular Language Service & Snippets: Benefit from real‑time template type checking and a comprehensive suite of Angular-specific code snippets.
- Auto‑Import and Barrel Generation: Automatically manage import statements and generate
index.ts barrel files.
- HTML/CSS Navigation: Effortlessly navigate from template tags to source definitions, inspect styles, and highlight matching tags.
- Code Quality and Formatting: Leverage ESLint, Prettier, EditorConfig, and Better Comments for consistent code style and quality.
- GitLens and Error Lens: Access inline Git annotations and enhanced error highlighting for accelerated debugging.
- Test Explorer Integration: Execute and debug Angular unit tests (Jasmine/Mocha) directly from the Visual Studio Code sidebar.
Included Extensions
Contributing
Contributions to the Angular Essential Extension Pack are welcome and appreciated. To contribute:
Fork the GitHub repository.
Create a new branch for your feature or fix:
git checkout -b feature/your-feature
Make your changes, commit them, and push to your fork.
Submit a Pull Request targeting the main branch.
Before contributing, please review the Contribution Guidelines for coding standards, testing, and commit message conventions. If you encounter a bug or wish to request a new feature, please open an Issue.
Changelog
For a complete list of changes, see the CHANGELOG.md.
Authors
For a complete list of contributors, please refer to the contributors page.
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Other Extensions
Auto Barrel
Automatically generates and maintains barrel (index.ts) files for your TypeScript projects.
Angular File Generator
Generates boilerplate and navigates your Angular (9→20+) project from within the editor, with commands for components, services, directives, modules, pipes, guards, reactive snippets, and JSON2TS transformations.
NestJS File Generator
Simplifies creation of controllers, services, modules, and more for NestJS projects, with custom commands and Swagger snippets.
NestJS Snippets
Ready-to-use code patterns for creating controllers, services, modules, DTOs, filters, interceptors, and more in NestJS.
T3 Stack / NextJS / ReactJS File Generator
Automates file creation (components, pages, hooks, API routes, etc.) in T3 Stack (Next.js, React) projects and can start your dev server from VSCode.
Drizzle ORM Snippets
Collection of code snippets to speed up Drizzle ORM usage, defines schemas, migrations, and common database operations in TypeScript/JavaScript.
CodeIgniter 4 Spark
Scaffolds controllers, models, migrations, libraries, and CLI commands in CodeIgniter 4 projects using Spark, directly from the editor.
CodeIgniter 4 Snippets
Snippets for accelerating development with CodeIgniter 4, including controllers, models, validations, and more.
CodeIgniter 4 Shield Snippets
Snippets tailored to CodeIgniter 4 Shield for faster authentication and security-related code.
Mustache Template Engine - Snippets & Autocomplete
Snippets and autocomplete support for Mustache templates, making HTML templating faster and more reliable.
Recommended Browser Extension
For developers who work with .vsix files for offline installations or distribution, the complementary One-Click VSIX extension is recommended, available for both Chrome and Firefox.
One-Click VSIX integrates a direct "Download Extension" button into each VSCode Marketplace page, ensuring the file is saved with the .vsix extension, even if the server provides a .zip archive. This simplifies the process of installing or sharing extensions offline by eliminating the need for manual file renaming.
License
This project is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for full details.
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