---
title: "VS Code Setup - Recommended Extensions"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/vs-code-setup---recommended-extensions-yppnoamqq
source_url: https://dev.to/ahandsel/vs-code-setup-recommended-extensions-4877
type: article
source: "Community Picks"
published: 2024-08-25T17:17:38.594Z
updated: 2024-11-08T08:13:20.485Z
tags: ["github", "productivity", "vscode", "markdown"]
reading_time: 2
upvotes: 1127
comments: 26
language: en
---

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# VS Code Setup - Recommended Extensions

**[Community Picks](https://daily.dev/sources/community)** · 2 min read · 1127 upvotes · 26 comments

## Summary

A curated list of recommended Visual Studio Code extensions categorized by their use cases, such as markdown support, general writing, GitHub integration, CSV handling, Japanese language tools, styling and themes, and various utility extensions. Includes a step-by-step guide for easy installation of all listed extensions via an `extensions.json` file.

## Full article

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## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@engineerdaryl** · 14 upvotes

> Usually, these articles are like "I'm using Material Theme, GitLens and Prettier!" and then they try to be unique. This article is better. It gives a list of extensions that are not that common perse and taught me how to install extensions in my workspace instead of in my profile. Good article!

**@webry** · 9 upvotes

> For TypeScript lemme add [Pretty TypeScript Errors](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=yoavbls.pretty-ts-errors).

**@joeri\_s** · 4 upvotes

> That's a good list, although adding all of these is going to bog things down. Some others that I like:
>
> - html-in-template-string and Live Preview: these are basically all I need to do vanilla web development
> - REST client: has totally replaced postman for me. It does less, but the way it neatly integrates into VS code and into a repo makes it just better in my view.
> - Todo Tree: of all the todo extensions I've tried this is the one I keep going back to, does highlighting and lists all the todo's in a single pane without ever becoming slow

**@shivamkush27** · 2 upvotes

> 2 more recommendations
> 1. **Error Lens:** Highlighting the code that has some error so that you can check error directly without executing the code.
> 2. **Save Typing:** Automatically save your code as you progress through your project preventing code from any unknown system faliure.

**@anubhab\_mowar** · 2 upvotes

> Great article for beginners,
>
> I would like to suggest some good alternatives,
>
> GitHub copilot - codeium(free)
> Live server - live preview ( easier to handle and also provides a side by side view)

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