---
title: "7 Best Visual Studio Code Extensions Every Web Developer Should Have."
url: https://daily.dev/posts/7-best-visual-studio-code-extensions-every-web-developer-should-have--51am4z-9e
source_url: https://dev.to/larymak/7-best-visual-studio-code-extensions-every-web-developer-should-have-2m1c
type: article
source: "DEV"
published: 2021-02-13T20:45:17.720Z
updated: 2026-03-15T03:57:18.875Z
tags: ["devtools", "general-programming"]
reading_time: 3
upvotes: 13
comments: 1
language: en
---

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# 7 Best Visual Studio Code Extensions Every Web Developer Should Have.

**[DEV](https://daily.dev/sources/devto)** · 3 min read · 13 upvotes · 1 comments

## Summary

Visual Studio Code is a free and open-source editor for web development. It supports a number of extensions that can be used for web application development. In this article, we are going to talk about 7 of these extensions that are used in developing a web application: Prettier, Live Server, Git Lens, Bracket Pair Colorizer, and Live Share.

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## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@wb\_bb\_617** · 1 upvotes

> Bracket Colorizer was interesting, but if you have similar code on bracket level deeper all the highlights will seem off by one.  I found indent-rainbow to be more helpful.

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