VSCodium/VSCode Extensions

Extensions can change the way VSCodium/VSCode works and add new features that make it much easier to use.

Security Considerations

WARNING: Extensions are running code on your computer, thus there is a possibility that they could do damage. Don’t just carelessly install a ton of extensions. Take a look at each one and ask yourself:

1. Do I really need what this extension provides?
2. Does it look reputable? Are the docs complete and well written?
3. How many downloads does it have? Ideally a few thousand or more.
4. If you really want to be thorough, do a search on the broader internet or in security forums to see if there are any mentions of issues with this extension.

Essential Extensions

I strongly recommend that you install these extensions. They will help you catch errors in your HTML & CSS as well as formatting your code properly. The live server will allow you to see the page you are working update in realtime.

• HTML-validate (Open VSX) (MS VSCode Marketplace)
• Stylelint (Open VSX) (MS VSCode Marketplace)
• Live Server (Open VSX) (MS VSCode Marketplace)
• Prettier - Code formatter (Open VSX) (MS VSCode Marketplace)

Recommended Extensions

• devdocs (Open VSX) (MS VSCode Marketplace)
• Auto Close Tag (Open VSX) (MS VSCode Marketplace)
• CSS Navigation (Open VSX) (MS VSCode Marketplace)
• Spell Right (Open VSX) (MS VSCode Marketplace)

Worth a Look

Some of the below extensions may have overlapping or duplicate functionality with the above extensions. I don’t necessarily recommend installing all of them, just the ones that are useful to you.

Navigation and Search

• Search: Find In Files With Selection (Open VSX) (MS VSCode Marketplace)
• Center Editor Window (Open VSX) (MS VSCode Marketplace)
• Block Travel (Open VSX) (MS VSCode Marketplace)
• Any Swap (Open VSX) (MS VSCode Marketplace)
• Toggle Quotes (Open VSX) (MS VSCode Marketplace)
• Go To Method (Open VSX) (MS VSCode Marketplace)

Snippets

• HTML Snippets (Open VSX) (MS VSCode Marketplace)
• Snippets Ranger (Open VSX) (MS VSCode Marketplace)

Spelling and Autocomplete

• Code Spell Checker (Open VSX) (MS VSCode Marketplace)
• Vale (Open VSX) (MS VSCode Marketplace)
• All Autocomplete (Open VSX) (MS VSCode Marketplace)

Debugging and Linting

• Debugger for Firefox (Open VSX) (MS VSCode Marketplace)
• ESLint (Open VSX) (MS VSCode Marketplace)
• HTML / XML / RSS link checker (Open VSX) (MS VSCode Marketplace)

Text Manipulation

• Sort Lines by Selection (Open VSX) (MS VSCode Marketplace)
• Increment Selection (Open VSX) (MS VSCode Marketplace)
• Simple Alignment (Open VSX) (MS VSCode Marketplace)
• Toggler (Open VSX) (MS VSCode Marketplace)
• Path Autocomplete (Open VSX) (MS VSCode Marketplace)
• Render Line Endings (Open VSX) (MS VSCode Marketplace)
• Text Power Tools (Open VSX) (MS VSCode Marketplace)
• File Utils (Open VSX) (MS VSCode Marketplace)

Markdown

• Markdown All in One (Open VSX) (MS VSCode Marketplace)
• markdownlint (Open VSX) (MS VSCode Marketplace)
• Markdown Notes (Open VSX) (MS VSCode Marketplace)

Git and GitHub Integration

• Git History (Open VSX) (MS VSCode Marketplace)
• GitLens — Git supercharged (Open VSX) (MS VSCode Marketplace)
• GitHub Theme (Open VSX) (MS VSCode Marketplace)
• GitHub Pull Requests and Issues (Open VSX) (MS VSCode Marketplace)
• Git Graph (Open VSX) (MS VSCode Marketplace)

Text Viewing

• Todo Tree (Open VSX) (MS VSCode Marketplace)
• Better Comments (Open VSX) (MS VSCode Marketplace)
• Syntax Highlighter (Open VSX) (MS VSCode Marketplace)
• diff (Open VSX) (MS VSCode Marketplace)