--- title: Best DevTools posts — October 2020 | daily.dev description: The most upvoted DevTools posts from October 2020, curated by the daily.dev community. canonical: https://daily.dev/tags/devtools/best-of/2020/10 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:url: https://daily.dev/tags/devtools/best-of/2020/10 og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Best DevTools posts — October 2020 | daily.dev og:description: The most upvoted DevTools posts from October 2020, curated by the daily.dev community. og:image: https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--VAY5ToZt--/f_auto/v1724209435/public/daily.dev%20-%20open%20graph --- # Best of DevTools — October 2020 1. 1 [](/posts/5-ways-to-customize-vs-code-x-cmygtpa "5 Ways To Customize VS Code") Article Hashnode · 6y 5 Ways To Customize VS Code 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. 72 20 2. 2 [](/posts/chrome-extensions-you-should-have-in-your-pocket--yerexqpe8 "Chrome extensions you should have in your pocket.") Article DEV · 6y Chrome extensions you should have in your pocket. This week I was looking at the chrome extensions that I have used so far and have been helpful in my journey. I will also like to mix up both design and dev extensions that might be helpful to you. All the extensions I will list down are free and very useful. At times I can't believe how efficient they are yet you get them free. That's why I love open source contribution. 34 11 3. 3 [](/posts/5-useful-vscode-extensions-you-don-t-know-about-yqoddvj69 "5 Useful VSCode Extensions You Don’t Know About") Article Hashnode · 6y 5 Useful VSCode Extensions You Don’t Know About I’ve been using VSCode for 4 years from its beta and installed over 50+ extensions. Here is the list of my 5 useful extensions you need to know about. Todo Tree is a simple extension that searches a workspace for comment tags like TODO and FIXME, and displays them in a tree view. 34 3 4. 4 [](/posts/my-12-favorite-chrome-extensions-as-a-web-developer--gg7acbsq2 "My 12 Favorite Chrome Extensions as a Web Developer ⚡🚀") Article DEV · 6y My 12 Favorite Chrome Extensions as a Web Developer ⚡🚀 PixelZoomer takes a screenshot of the current website and provides various tools for pixel analysis. Night Eye enables dark mode on any website using its proprietary algorithm, instead of inverting the colours like its competitors. The Great Suspender reduces Chrome's memory footprint. Momentum lets you replace new tab page with personal dashboard featuring to-do, weather, and inspiration. 32 5 5. 5 [](/posts/6-tools-i-use-for-web-development-iryn7z85n "6 Tools I use for Web Development") Article Hashnode · 6y 6 Tools I use for Web Development 26 2 6. 6 [](/posts/vs-code-extensions-to-become-a-more-productive-developer--whrdxgg1c "VS Code Extensions to become a more productive Developer 🤓🤓🤓") Article DEV · 6y VS Code Extensions to become a more productive Developer 🤓🤓🤓 The Bracket Pair Colorizer 2 extension allows matching brackets to be identified with colors. The Toggle Quotes extension lets you switch from one type of quotes to another. Peacock lets you change the color of your VS Code workspace. Polacode lets you select the code, resize the resulting snippet and create a perfectly shareable screenshot. 25 4 7. 7 [](/posts/don-t-overcomplicate-git--tocm4fds6 "Don't overcomplicate git 🙇‍♂️") Article Hashnode · 6y Don't overcomplicate git 🙇‍♂️ Using Visual Studio Code and the GitHub app, you can commit code without opening your terminal. You can write a commit message and even add a description to the commit. The commit message can then be pushed by clicking the commit button on the left of the application. The commits can be pushed multiple times at once. 16 1 8. 8 [](/posts/8-awesome-vs-code-extensions-for-laravel-developers-mnrxmr6fb "8 Awesome VS Code Extensions for Laravel Developers") Article DevDojo · 6y 8 Awesome VS Code Extensions for Laravel Developers Here is a list of my top 8 VS Code extensions for Laravel developers, which would help you be more productive. The Laravel blade snippets extension adds syntax highlight support to your VS Code editor. Laravel Artisan extension lets you run Laravel commands from within Visual Studio Code directly. 15 2 9. 9 [](/posts/vs-code-performance-how-to-optimize-visual-studio-code-and-choose-the-quot-best-quot-extensions-sjxbshfrd "VS Code Performance – How to Optimize Visual Studio Code and Choose the "Best" Extensions") Article freeCodeCamp · 6y VS Code Performance – How to Optimize Visual Studio Code and Choose the "Best" Extensions 13 1 10. 10 [](/posts/useful-extension-for-frontend-developer-wmtrrhopey "Useful extension for frontend developer") Article Quick Code · 6y Useful extension for frontend developer Git lens lets you track all changes in file in a convenient way. Live share allows us to work literally together in one file. Prettier supports all formats for frontend developers. 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