Vim Mode - The most popular Vim emulation for VS Code: modal editing, motions, and support for many popular Vim plugins.

Popular Atom key bindings for Visual Studio Code

Popular Sublime Text key bindings for VS Code.

Popular Visual Studio key bindings for VS Code.

Popular Intellij IDEA key bindings for VS Code.

Popular Xcode key bindings for VS Code.

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Using VS Code with particular technologies

Microsoft created a collection of recipes for using VS Code with particular technologies (mostly Web).

Make sure to visit it at Microsoft/vscode-recipes

Lint and IntelliSense

In case the awesome nirvana that is linting has not yet been unleashed upon you:

lint was the name originally given to a particular program that flagged some suspicious and non-portable constructs (likely to be bugs) in C language source code. The term is now applied generically to tools that flag suspicious usage in software written in any computer language.

Unlike some other editors, VS Code supports IntelliSense, linting, outline out-of-the-box and doesn't require any separate extension to run linter packages. Some linters are already integrated in VS Code, you can find the full list in the official documentation, Languages section.

Syntax Highlighting, Snippets, Go to Definition, Signature helper and Code formatter

A language server for Bash

A debugger extension for Bash scripts based on bashdb

Bash script snippets extension

More

Integrated REPL, linting, inline eval, test runner, and more. Powered by Cider & nRepl.

Peek or Jump to a CSS definition directly from HTML, just like in Brackets!

Parse CSS,SCSS, LESS and add vendor prefixes automatically.

See the difference between these two here

⚠️ Deprecated — debugging JavaScript in Chrome/Edge is now built into VS Code via the bundled JavaScript Debugger, so this extension is no longer needed.

• TSLint reached end-of-life in 2019 — use ESLint with typescript-eslint to lint TypeScript.

This extension provides support for editing MATLAB® code in Visual Studio® Code and includes features such as syntax highlighting, code analysis, navigation support, and more.

Without MATLAB installed:

• Syntax highlighting
• Code snippets
• Commenting
• Code folding

With MATLAB installed:

• Automatic code completion
• Source code formatting (document formatting)
• Code navigation
• Code analysis, such as continuous code checking and automatic fixes

Linter for markdownlint.

All-in-one markdown plugin (keyboard shortcuts, table of contents, auto preview, list editing and more)

Adds emoji syntax support to VS Code's built-in Markdown preview

A markdown editor with a single-tab live/source toggle for distraction-free writing.

Rich language support for the PHP language: linting, debugging, intellisense, auto-completion, code formatting, refactoring, unit testing, profiling, and more.

To enable Emmet support in .twig files, you'll need to have the following in your settings:

{
  "emmet.includeLanguages": {
    "twig": "html"
  }
}

Smarty Template Support

Smarty template support with formatting, folding, snippets, syntax highlighting and more.

GitHub

Review and manage GitHub pull requests and issues

Allows you to manage GitHub Gists entirely within the editor. You can open, create, delete, fork, star and clone gists, and then seamlessly begin editing files as if they were local. It's like your very own developer library for building and referencing code snippets, commonly used config/scripts, programming-related notes/documentation, and interactive samples.

Shows GitHub Actions workflows and runs

Remotely browse and edit any GitHub repository

This extension uses the GitHub api to monitor the state of your pull requests and let you know when it's time to merge or if someone requested changes.

Productivity

Displays a graphical preview of Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates. The view will show all resources with the official Azure icons and also linkage between the resources.

Browse your database inside the vs code editor

Everything you need for the Azure IoT development: Interact with Azure IoT Hub, manage devices connected to Azure IoT Hub, and develop with code snippets for Azure IoT Hub

Mark lines and jump to them

Use the Microsoft Edge browser's DevTools (Elements, Network, Console) and an in-editor browser preview directly inside VS Code.

An extension for big projects or monorepos that colors your tab/titlebar based on the current package

An extension to quickly generate test files.

An extension that can turn Visual Studio Code into a PKM tool, with excellent UX, using Markdown files to organize and reference any amount of knowledge. Whether you organize your notes with PARA or Zettelkasten, link notes together like Roam, or simply create notes in an ad-hoc manner, Dendron can help. Think of it as a second brain to help you make sense of all the information you care about. Bonus: Dendron can also publish a static site via NextJS if also using dendron-cli.

Ability to duplicate files and directories.

Show language diagnostics inline (errors/warnings/...).

Toggle any VS Code setting by your favorite keybindings.

Example of toggling typescript.inlayHints.functionLikeReturnTypes.enabled by shortcut:

Provides Javascript and React/Redux snippets in ES7

Generating .gitignore files made easy.

View git log, file or line History

Automatically indexes your git projects and lets you easily toggle between them

GoTo current file's online link in browser and Copy the link in clipboard.

Provides Git CodeLens information (most recent commit, # of authors), on-demand inline blame annotations, status bar blame information, file and blame history explorers, and commands to compare changes with the working tree or previous versions.

Adds a GitLab sidebar icon to view issues, merge requests and other GitLab resources. You can also view the results of your GitLab CI/CD pipeline and check the syntax of your .gitlab-ci.yml.

Gradle Tasks

Run gradle tasks in VS Code.

Snippets for popular icon fonts such as Font Awesome, Ionicons, Glyphicons, Octicons, Material Design Icons and many more!

This extension will display inline in the editor the size of the imported package. The extension utilizes webpack with babili-webpack-plugin in order to detect the imported size.

Bringing the power of Jira and Bitbucket to VS Code - With Atlassian for VS Code you can create and view issues, start work on issues, create pull requests, do code reviews, start builds, get build statuses and more!

Fast label-based cursor movement — jump to anywhere visible by typing a few characters (in the spirit of Atom's Jumpy).

Simple Kanban board for use in Visual Studio Code, with time tracking and Markdown support.

Launch a development local Server with live reload feature for static & dynamic pages.

Keeps a history of your copies and cuts so you can pick any earlier entry to paste again.

ngrok allows you to expose a web server running on your local machine to the internet. Just tell ngrok what port your web server is listening on. This extension allows you to control ngrok from the VSCode command palette

View and run your .NET Core tests directly in the editor.

🌍 All in one i18n extension for VSCode

Simply, edit markdown documents in vscode and instantly preview it in your browser as you type.

Visual Studio Code plugin that autocompletes npm modules in import statements.

Provides parameter hints on function calls in JS/TS/PHP files.

Compare (diff) text selections within a file, across different files, or to the clipboard

Infer the structure of JSON and paste is as types in many programming languages

Provides path completion for visual studio code.

Visual Studio Code plugin that autocompletes filenames

Extends Visual Studio Code via things like Node.js based scripts or shell commands, without writing separate extensions

PrintCode converts the code being edited into an HTML file, displays it by browser and prints it.

Easily switch between projects.

VSCode Project Dashboard is a Visual Studio Code extension that lets you organize your projects in a speed-dial like manner. Pin your frequently visited folders, files, and SSH remotes onto a dashboard to access them quickly.

Highlight columns in comma, tab, semicolon and pipe separated files, consistency check and linting with CSVLint, multi-cursor column editing, column trimming and realignment, and SQL-style querying with RBQL.

Allows users to open any folder in a container, on a remote machine, container or in Windows Subsystem for Linux(WSL) and take advantage of VS Code's full feature set.

Allows you to send HTTP request and view the response in Visual Studio Code directly.

All-in-one extension for text manipulation: filtering (grep), remove lines, insert number sequences and GUIDs, format content as table, change case, converting numbers and more. Great for finding information in logs and manipulating text.

Custom keywords, highlighting, and colors for TODO comments. As well as a sidebar to view all your current tags.

Cycle between single, double and backtick quotes

TypeScript Language Service Plugin providing a set of source actions for easy objects destructuring

Automatic time tracker and productivity dashboard showing how long you coded in each project, file, branch, and language.

Time converter extension to convert timestamps from/to various formats and insert them on demand or just display them. It further provides a neat hover provider to beautify epoch timestamps instantly. All features are highly customizable.

Send HTTP, REST, GraphQL, gRPC, WebSocket and MQTT requests directly from VS Code.

A zero-config database GUI that auto-loads and lets you browse your database directly inside VS Code.

Generate unit tests and API tests with mocks from your application traffic.

Language-aware diffs that ignore formatting-only changes and highlight the meaningful edits.

Meta-linter and formatter that runs and manages many linters/formatters from one config, plus check, test and merge tooling.

Subtly change the color of your VS Code workspace — ideal for telling apart identical windows or monorepo projects.

AI pair programmer that suggests whole lines and functions as you type, with an in-editor chat.

Formatting & Beautification

Align your code by colon(:), assignment(=,+=,-=,*=,/=) and arrow(=>). It has additional support for comma-first coding style and trailing comment.

And it doesn't require you to select what to be aligned, the extension will figure it out by itself.

Native settings, just add "editor.linkedEditing": true to your settings.json file

Auto rename paired HTML/XML tags

Transform html to pug inside your Visual Studio Code, forget about using an external page anymore.

Paste code with "correct" indentation

Sorts lines of text in specific order

A simple yet powerful extension to add wrapper templates around your code blocks.

Wraps selection or multiple selections with symbol or multiple symbols

Allows you to toggle your formatter on and off with a simple click

shell script & Dockerfile & dotenv format

Quickly translate selected text right in your code

Uncategorized

Play interactive tutorials in your favorite editor.

Run code snippet or code file for multiple languages: C, C++, Java, JavaScript, PHP, Python, Perl, Ruby, Go, Lua, Groovy, PowerShell, BAT/CMD, BASH/SH, F# Script, C# Script, VBScript, TypeScript, CoffeeScript, Scala, Swift, Julia, Crystal, OCaml Script

Automatic time reports by project and other programming metrics right in VS Code.

Highlight web colors in your editor

Syntax highlighting for the VS Code Output Panel and log files

Dash integration in Visual Studio Code

Leverage your favourite shell commands to edit text

Editor Config for VS Code

Sync files to a remote server over SFTP/FTP, with upload-on-save, diff and remote browsing. Maintained successor to the original liximomo SFTP extension.

Highlights matching tags in the file.

A simple extension to make indentation more readable.

Syncs selected VSCode theme with iTerm2 color profile

Create a secure password using our generator tool. Help prevent a security threat by getting a strong password today.

The official PlatformIO IDE: a cross-platform ecosystem for embedded/IoT development supporting 1000+ boards and many platforms and frameworks, with build, debug and unit testing.

Polaroid for your code 📸.

Send your code to carbon.now.sh.

Rapid prototyping playground for JavaScript and TypeScript in VS Code, with access to your project's files, inline reporting, code coverage and rich output formatting.

Run various scripts right from VS Code

A Powerful SVG Language Support Extension(beta). Almost all the features you need to handle SVG.

Highlight multiple text patterns with different colors at the same time. Highlighting a single text pattern can be done with the editor's search functionality, but it cannot highlight multiple patterns at the same time, and this is where this extension comes handy.

Quickly generate interface definitions from typescript class

Adds JFrog Xray scanning of project dependencies to your VS Code IDE. It allows developers to view panels displaying vulnerability information about the components and their dependencies directly in their VS Code IDE. The extension also allows developers to track the status of the code while it is being built, tested and scanned on the CI server.

Triage static-analysis results from SARIF files: view, group, filter and annotate findings. By Trail of Bits.

View Word, Excel, PDF, Markdown and CSV files directly inside VS Code.

Themes

If you're feeling brave, there are at least two custom UIs for VS Code:

Cyberpunk 2077 inspired theme

VSCode theme inspired by a galaxy far far away...

Dark VSCode theme inspired by Japanese traditional colors and the poetry composed 1000 years ago.

One Dark Theme based on Atom.

A detailed and accurate Atom One Dark Theme.

A simple theme with bright colors and comes in three versions — dark, light and mirage for all day long comfortable work.

VS Code theme inspired by the calm colors of the aurora borealis in Alaska.

Tuff but sweet theme.

🏙 Yummygum's Official City Lights suite

🔥 Official theme by Wes Bos.

Official Dracula Theme. A dark theme for many editors, shells, and more.

A simple theme with bright colors in three variants — Night Sky, Serene and Ocean for all day long comfortable work.

A colorful and semantic coloring code theme.

A fun, purple-based pastel/candy/daydream fairyfloss theme made by sailorhg.

GitHub Theme for Visual Studio Code.

Jellybeans Theme for Visual Studio Code.

An elegant and juicy material-like theme for Visual Studio Code.

The most epic theme now for Visual Studio Code.

Minimal monochrome theme.

A dark theme with vibrant colors by Rocketseat.

A popular free Monokai theme for Visual Studio Code, blending Monokai with Atom's One Dark.

Beautiful functionality for professional developers, from the author of the original Monokai color scheme.

A VS Code theme for the night owls out there. Works well in the daytime, too, but this theme is fine-tuned for those of us who like to code late into the night. Color choices have taken into consideration what is accessible to people with color blindness and in low-light circumstances. Decisions were also based on meaningful contrast for reading comprehension and for optimal razzle dazzle. ✨

A simple theme.

An arctic, north-bluish clean and elegant Visual Studio Code theme.

Collection of 320+ beautiful syntax and UI themes.

A relaxed theme to take a more relaxed view of things.

⚡ A professional theme with hand-picked & bold shades of purple 💜 to go along with your VS Code. A custom VS Code theme with style.

A dark syntax/workbench theme for Visual Studio Code - optimized for SCSS, HTML, JS, TS, Markdown, and PHP files.

Collection of 18 light themes separated in 4 groups by background's brightness.

People to Follow

A list of Twitter accounts for various people in the VS Code Community

Resources for extension developers

• Visual Studio Code API section of Official Documentation

Online Courses

After 10 years with Sublime Text, Ahmad Awais switched to VSCode, built Shades of Purple theme, and spent over a 1,000 hours perfecting his setup. He has launched a VSCode Power User Course to help you switch today. You can bring all your custom settings from the previous editor and learn the power user workflows for HTML/CSS, Git/GitHub & Open Source, supercharged Markdown, and everything from JavaScript to PHP, Go, Python, C++, C#, ROR. In this course, you'll also learn to install/setup 50+ Extensions.

Contribute

Contributions welcome! Read the contribution guidelines first.

License

I am providing code and resources in this repository to you under an open source license. Because this is my personal repository, the license you receive to my code and resources is from me and not my employer (Microsoft).

To the extent possible under law, Valerii Iatsko has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this work.