11 VS Code Extensions To Increase Your Productivity (2021)

After reading this article you have a good set of extensions to help you in day-to-day coding.

Bookmarks

To help you track snippets or components within your codebase
Bookmarks extension tutorial

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Bracket Pair Colorizer 2

To help you track various brackets within the codebase
Bracket Pair Colorizer 2example

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GitLens

Supercharge your 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
Gitlens extension tutorial

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Git Graph

View a Git Graph of your repository, and perform Git actions from the graph.

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Path Intellisense

Visual Studio Code plugin that autocompletes filenames

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Color Picker

Helper with GUI to generate color codes such as CSS color

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Stepsize

Manage technical debt & prioritize refactoring work, all directly from VSCode.

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Auto CloseTag

Automatically add HTML/XML close tag, same as Visual Studio IDE or Sublime Text.

Auto tag tutorial1After typing in the closing bracket of the opening tag, the closing tag will be inserted automatically.

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Vscode-icons

Icons for Visual Studio Code.

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Vscode-pdf

Display pdf file in VSCode.

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JavaScript Booster

Boost your productivity with advanced JavaScript/TypeScript refactoring and commands

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Kite

AI code completions for all languages, intellisense, code snippets, code signatures, and cursor-following documentation for VS Code. Kite supports.js.jsx.vue.tsx.ts.css.html.less.c.cc.cpp.cs.h.hpp.m.scala.java

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