--- title: 15 Useful VS Code Shortcuts to Boost Your Productivity description: VS Code is one of the most popular editors for web development. Having hands-on keyboard shortcuts can help improve your coding speed by a lot. Here is a list... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/15-useful-vs-code-shortcuts-to-boost-your-productivity-wwtegtfzc twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: 15 Useful VS Code Shortcuts to Boost Your Productivity | daily.dev og:description: VS Code is one of the most popular editors for web development. Having hands-on keyboard shortcuts can help improve your coding speed by a lot. Here is a list... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/15-useful-vs-code-shortcuts-to-boost-your-productivity-wwtegtfzc og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/WwtEgTfZC.png og:image:alt: 15 Useful VS Code Shortcuts to Boost Your Productivity og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # 15 Useful VS Code Shortcuts to Boost Your Productivity **[Better Programming](https://daily.dev/sources/btrprog)** · [@shubhamreacts](https://daily.dev/shubhamreacts) · 1 min read · 152 upvotes · 10 comments ## Summary VS Code is one of the most popular editors for web development. Having hands-on keyboard shortcuts can help improve your coding speed by a lot. Here is a list of some shortcuts that I have been using for a while and found to be really useful. 15 Useful VS Code Shortcuts to Boost Your Productivity. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@thecatalyst** · 3 upvotes > This is very helpful. There are some cool shortcuts here that make manipulating features a bit easier. There are also the commands written for each OS, if you are a VSCode user, you will find these helpful. Bookmark it. **@jeremyworkplace** · 3 upvotes > Ok, I think this is one of the best articles, at least for me and my colleagues. It is very important to understand the tool you use on daily basis. **@crayfish** · 1 upvotes > keyboard in thumbnail tho looks fiiiiiiiiiiire **@mehediislamripon** · 1 upvotes > Awesome!! 🎉 **@fdjuliza85** · 1 upvotes > nice ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [CNCF Unveils Schedule for KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon Europe 2026](https://daily.dev/posts/cncf-unveils-schedule-for-kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe-2026-ikhcoa5cb) · CNCF · 2 upvotes · 0 comments - [CNCF Debuts KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon Japan 2026 Schedule](https://daily.dev/posts/cncf-debuts-kubecon-cloudnativecon-japan-2026-schedule-xp5pyudub) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#career](https://daily.dev/tags/career), [#general-programming](https://daily.dev/tags/general-programming) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/15-useful-vs-code-shortcuts-to-boost-your-productivity-wwtegtfzc) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"15 Useful VS Code Shortcuts to Boost Your Productivity","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/15-useful-vs-code-shortcuts-to-boost-your-productivity-wwtegtfzc","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/15-useful-vs-code-shortcuts-to-boost-your-productivity-wwtegtfzc"},"datePublished":"2021-09-03T13:11:31.650Z","dateModified":"2021-10-07T14:17:10.317Z","description":" VS Code is one of the most popular editors for web development. 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