Templ Project Generic Essential Extension Pack

Essential productivity extensions for general development in VSCode

📦 What's Included

This extension pack includes 20 carefully selected extensions to enhance your generic-essential development experience in vscode.

✅ Core Extensions (19)

These extensions are essential for generic-essential development:

• GitHub Copilot - Your AI pair programmer
• GitLens - Git supercharged
• Better Comments - Improve your code commenting by annotating with alert, info, todo, and more
• Bookmarks - Mark lines and jump to them
• Code Spell Checker - Spelling checker for source code
• DotENV - Support for dotenv file syntax
• EditorConfig for VS Code - EditorConfig Support for Visual Studio Code
• Error Lens - Improve highlighting of errors, warnings and other language diagnostics
• Path Intellisense - Visual Studio Code plugin that autocompletes filenames
• TODO Tree - Show TODO, FIXME, etc. comment tags in a tree view
• Version Lens - Shows the latest version for each package using code lens
• JSON5 syntax - JSON5 syntax support
• Markdown All in One - All you need to write Markdown (keyboard shortcuts, table of contents, auto preview and more)
• markdownlint - Markdown linting and style checking for Visual Studio Code
• Markdown Table Prettifier - Transforms markdown tables to be more readable
• Markdown Preview Mermaid Support - Adds Mermaid diagram and flowchart support to VS Code's builtin markdown preview
• Mermaid Markdown Syntax Highlighting - Markdown syntax support for the Mermaid charting language
• Even Better TOML - Fully-featured TOML support with syntax highlighting, validation, formatting, and schema support
• YAML - YAML language support with schema validation

💡 Additional Extensions (1)

These extensions provide extra functionality and convenience:

• Trailing Spaces - Highlight trailing spaces and delete them in a flash

🚀 Installation

Method 1: Install from Marketplace

1. Open Vscode
2. Go to Extensions view (Ctrl+Shift+X / Cmd+Shift+X)
3. Search for "Templ Project Generic Essential Extension Pack"
4. Click "Install"

Method 2: Install via Command Line

code --install-extension @templ-project/generic-essential-extension-pack

Method 3: Install from VSIX

1. Download the latest .vsix file from Releases
2. Open Vscode
3. Run Extensions: Install from VSIX... command
4. Select the downloaded file

⚙️ Configuration

After installation, you may want to configure some settings for optimal generic-essential development:

workbench.colorTheme

{
  "workbench.colorTheme": "Default Dark+"
}

Default dark theme for better visibility

editor.renderWhitespace

{
  "editor.renderWhitespace": "trailing"
}

Show trailing whitespace

files.trimTrailingWhitespace

{
  "files.trimTrailingWhitespace": true
}

Trim trailing whitespace on save

files.insertFinalNewline

{
  "files.insertFinalNewline": true
}

Insert final newline at end of file

editor.rulers

{
  "editor.rulers": [
  80,
  120
]
}

Show rulers at 80 and 120 characters

scm.defaultViewMode

{
  "scm.defaultViewMode": "tree"
}

Default Git view mode

errorLens.enabledDiagnosticLevels

{
  "errorLens.enabledDiagnosticLevels": [
  "error",
  "warning",
  "info"
]
}

Show error lens for errors, warnings, and info messages

errorLens.excludeBySource

{
  "errorLens.excludeBySource": []
}

Sources to exclude from error lens

[json]

{
  "[json]": {
  "editor.defaultFormatter": "vscode.json-language-features",
  "editor.formatOnSave": true,
  "editor.tabSize": 2,
  "editor.insertSpaces": true
}
}

JSON file formatting settings using built-in formatter

[jsonc]

{
  "[jsonc]": {
  "editor.defaultFormatter": "vscode.json-language-features",
  "editor.formatOnSave": true,
  "editor.tabSize": 2,
  "editor.insertSpaces": true
}
}

JSON with Comments file formatting settings using built-in formatter

⌨️ Recommended Keybindings

• Toggle bookmark: ctrl+shift+b
• Jump to next bookmark: ctrl+shift+j
• Jump to previous bookmark: ctrl+shift+k

📝 Extension Details

🏷️ Categories

📄 License

Extension Pack License

This extension pack is licensed under the MIT License - see LICENSE.md for details.

Third-Party Extension Licenses

Important: Each extension included in this pack has its own license terms. templ-project is not responsible for the licensing, functionality, or security of third-party extensions.

Disclaimer

• We do not guarantee the functionality, security, or compatibility of included extensions
• We are not responsible for any issues caused by third-party extensions
• Users install and use extensions at their own risk
• Please review each extension's license and privacy policy before use

🤝 Contributing

Found an issue or want to suggest an extension? Please open an issue or submit a pull request.

📊 Extension Pack Stats

• Total Extensions: 20
• Required Extensions: 19
• Optional Extensions: 1
• Target IDE: vscode
• Language Focus: generic-essential

This extension pack is maintained by templ-project and updated regularly to include the most useful generic-essential development extensions.