--- title: 5 Ways To Customize VS Code | daily.dev description: The beauty of Visual Studio Code is how easy it is to customize. I've spent tons of time learning how to optimize VS Code for me, so I wanted to share how you... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/5-ways-to-customize-vs-code-x-cmygtpa twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: 5 Ways To Customize VS Code | daily.dev og:description: The beauty of Visual Studio Code is how easy it is to customize. I've spent tons of time learning how to optimize VS Code for me, so I wanted to share how you... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/5-ways-to-customize-vs-code-x-cmygtpa og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/X-CmYGTpa.png og:image:alt: 5 Ways To Customize VS Code 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. # 5 Ways To Customize VS Code **[Hashnode](https://daily.dev/sources/hashnode)** · [@jamesqquick](https://daily.dev/jamesqquick) · 5 min read · 72 upvotes · 20 comments ## Summary The beauty of Visual Studio Code is how easy it is to customize. I've spent tons of time learning how to optimize VS Code for me, so I wanted to share how you can do it too. Let's look at 5 different ways you can customize your VS Code. Themes are probably the first and easiest way to customize VS Code to look much nicer. Extensions add a lot more than just aesthetics. ## 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. **@emmorais** · 4 upvotes > Really good! I'd like to share my settings.json and extensions for front-end developers: > > > https://gist.github.com/esau-morais **@angel877898** · 2 upvotes > The theme is awesome **@iamshadmirza** · 2 upvotes > One more thing could be added to the list: Snippets. I have boosted my productivity to a significant amount as soon as I discovered how to add custom snippets. It's a game changer. Overall, nice article. My favourite themes are Dracula and One Dark Atom. **@iaros** · 2 upvotes > Great article, I've found some interesting extensions. **@turbo63** · 2 upvotes > Awesome post! ## 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 --- Tags: [#devtools](https://daily.dev/tags/devtools), [#general-programming](https://daily.dev/tags/general-programming) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/5-ways-to-customize-vs-code-x-cmygtpa) ```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":"5 Ways To Customize VS Code","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/5-ways-to-customize-vs-code-x-cmygtpa","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/5-ways-to-customize-vs-code-x-cmygtpa"},"datePublished":"2020-10-21T13:31:05.965Z","dateModified":"2026-03-15T05:31:51.022Z","description":"The beauty of Visual Studio Code is how easy it is to customize. 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I’d like to share my settings.json and extensions for front-end developers:\nhttps://gist.github.com/esau-morais","datePublished":"2020-10-21T14:38:24.423Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/X-CmYGTpa#c-PEUjNXeBV","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Esaú Morais","url":"https://daily.dev/emmorais","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/v1670685286/avatars/avatar_l1ZLq0tez.jpg"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":4}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"The theme is awesome","datePublished":"2020-10-22T12:37:31.182Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/X-CmYGTpa#c-kPClOclqA","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Angel Hernandez","url":"https://daily.dev/angel877898","image":"https://avatars1.githubusercontent.com/u/50708206?v=4"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":2}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"One more thing could be added to the list: Snippets. I have boosted my productivity to a significant amount as soon as I discovered how to add custom snippets. It’s a game changer. Overall, nice article. 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