
In order for the extension to work, your project will need ESLint packages and plugins installed. With over 8 million installs, this is the most popular extension providing support for the ESLint library. Here are the extensions we have available:
#Visual studio extensions directory install
VS Code doesn’t have a built-in JavaScript linter, so you’ll need to install an extension. You can use them as is or use a configuration file to customize the rules. You define your rules by picking a popular coding style such as Standard, Google, and Airbnb. To enforce the rules, we need to use linters that compare your code with the rules you’ve established. However, it’s quite common for programmers to forget which coding styling they agreed to work with. Nevertheless, everyone on the same team needs to use the same coding style regardless of their opinion. Have you have ever gotten into a debate with your teammates over tabs vs spaces or semicolons vs no semicolons? You’ll realize that people have strong opinions about which coding style to use. With 730k+ installs, this extension highlights matching brackets with different colors, helping you identify which bracket belongs to which block.
Bracket Pair Colorizer 2, by CoenraadS. With over 833k installs to date, this extension supports syntax highlighting for environment settings - that is. With over 550k+ installs to date, this extension provides syntax highlighting for ES201x JavaScript, React, FlowType and GraphQL code. Babel JavaScript, by Michael McDermott. However, we still have a few syntax highlighting extensions that are quite useful when it comes to certain types of projects and file extensions. Hence, extensions such as JavaScript Atom Grammar are no longer needed. The latest version of VS Code supports better syntax colorization and is now more in line with the standards set in Atom grammar. JavaScript snippets ported from the atom/language-javascript extension.
With about 26k+ installs to date, the snippets in this extension were ported from atom/language-javascript.
Atom JavaScript Snippet, by Saran Tanpituckpong. This snippet extension supports Node.js, BDD Testing frameworks such as Mocha and Jasmine. A collection of JavaScript snippets with about 33k+ installs to date. JavaScript Snippets, by Nathan Chapman. Contains a huge collection of handy snippets and supports JavaScript, TypeScript and React. Originally forked from Atom StandardJS snippets. Another StandardJS Styled snippets but this one is more popular with over 72k installs. JavaScript standardjs styled snippets, by capaj. This is basically a fork of the above extension for those who prefer StandardJS style convention-that is, the snippets don’t have semicolons. JavaScript (ES6) code snippets in StandardJS style, by James Vickery. This extension provides ES6 syntax for JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, React and Vue. This is currently the most popular javaScript snippet extension with over 3+ million installs to date. JavaScript (ES6) code snippets, by Charalampos Karypidis. However, I would recommend you install just one for simplicity’s sake. Here are some of the most popular snippet extensions for JavaScript developers. A quick tip if you want snippets to show on top of suggestions is to use this configuration: You can easily create your own, or you can simply install an extension that includes a bunch of new useful snippets. However, you may find these may not be enough. Snippets help you write repetitive code quickly. When you first install VS Code, it comes with a several built-in snippets for JavaScript and Typescript. For simplicity, I’ll group them into ten specific categories. Instead, I’ll highlight VS Code extensions that have gained popularity and those that are indispensable for JavaScript developers. Currently, there are many VS Code extensions that fit this criterion, which of course means I won’t be able to mention all of them.
VS Code Extensions by Categoryįor this article, I’ll focus on VS Code extensions specifically targeting JavaScript developers. Support for a library or framework comes in various ways, which mainly includes snippets, syntax highlighting, Emmet and IntelliSense features for that specific technology. Thanks to the wonderful open-source community, the editor is now capable of supporting almost every programming language, framework and development technology. The power of VS Code no doubt comes from the marketplace. In addition, it also provides much-needed features like IntelliSense, which were only available in full-sized IDEs like Eclipse or Visual Studio 2017. However, its success mainly comes from its ability to provide better performance and stability. It does borrow heavily from other popular code editors, mostly Sublime Text and Atom. Visual Studio Code is undoubtedly the most popular, lightweight code editor today. In this article, I’ll focus on a list of must-have VS Code extensions for JavaScript developers.