3 Useful VSCode Extensions for an Absolute Beginner.
So at this point in progress in the coding bootcamp I’m enrolled in, we’ve become quite friendly with VScode. They start us off with a handful of extensions to start us off and get us ready to do the work of the class, but they are just packaged along with our setup scripts and we must take it upon ourselves to really find out what they actually do. I’ve tried my best to learn what I can about each of these starter extensions and have been lucky to find a few of my own that I would feel totally lost without in my coding adolescence. I’ll try and omit the obvious ones because I’ve read a few of these types of articles, but I am new so these are going to be rudimentary tools.
Also exploring the command palette and trying to use the tools it affords me inside VScode has been really rewarding and I think it’s sped up my classwork so far!
3. Polacode
Polacode allows you to send way better looking screenshots of your code to your contemporaries. All of your formatting/extensions/colorizing inside VSCode are saved. Sending selectable text to your peers is always the best idea, but you may be able to share more information from your IDE this way, plus it looks great!
2. vscode-pdf
I am a huge fan of online code cheatsheets. They’re formatted beautifully, and provide a ton of syntax type information that usually makes up all issues with my code. vscode-pdf allows me to have these in a tab alongside whatever I am coding so I can reference syntax live. Truly a blessing.
1. Trailing Spaces
One of the first questions I asked myself was, how do I know when I’m writing good code? How do I see where I put in too many spaces? They’re called spaces for a reason right? How do all of these people write perfectly indented code with no fluff in it? A lot of them have tools like this.
Get that useless line and tab outta there!!!
Moral of the story, VScode is badass, and the community building extensions for it is great and want you to be 100x faster/more efficient/more concise at coding, and have built really cool things. The command palette is also unstoppable. You wanna copy whole lines and move them in one keystroke? You wanna see what you’ve changed since the last time you saved? You wanna save large code snippets without leaving your code for a second? Done. VScode is great.
