VS Code Extension that helps you code faster | 5 Best extensions

Hey all my friends, welcome to Coding Bishal once again. And in this article, we will be discussing 5 Visual Studio extensions. Using these extensions in VS-Code makes your programming life a little bit easier.

These extensions will make the VS code interface more improved. And it will help you in writing your coding faster, more efficient, and more error-free.

For those who don't know what VS-code is, here is the answer. Visual Studio Code aka VS Code is a software tool that is used in writing code and developing programs. Anyone can use VS-code coding as it is freely available software that can be used for any programming language. I have been using VS Code for a very long time and I personally recommend it to everyone who isn't using it,

This software is so well developed by Microsoft that many helpful extensions can be added to it. These extensions are very useful and they indeed make the life of developers pretty easier. So in this article, I will be discussing 5 of these Extensions/tools. So here are-

5 VS-Code extensions that will help you code faster

Prettier

Prettier Code Formatter is an extension with millions of downloads already because it is very efficient. What it does is, formats our handwritten code.

It is a very extension for those who are very new to programming and makes lots of mistakes in typing. Such as, most beginners put unnecessary multiple spaces between keywords, or are confused with the open and closing brackets alignment and positions. Because of these silly mistakes, our code does not look good.

All we need is to install this extension and make some decent chances in the settings. Using Prettier Extension, all you need is to do is use CTRL+S (Save), your code/file, and all your code will get automatically formatted.

All extra space and indentation will be removed and brackets will be in desired positions and aligned accordingly. This extension is well suited for programming languages related to web development, such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, etc.

Material Theme

As a coder and developer, we want to be very futuristic. Well, we can't become exactly like Matrix Neo. But at least we can do something with the theme. Being a coder of this generation we all want to do some fun with our Code Editor, which makes me talk about Dark Mode.

Now Material Theme is an extension that gives you various shades of dark themes to install in VS code so that you could customize your code editor as you desire. Using Material Theme in VS Code you get, many dark themes, and many colorful, contrasting, bright themes, just as you want.

Also, the not only dark theme gives you a futuristic feeling but also it is beneficial for our eyes. The blue rays from the Desktop/Laptop screen and Dark mode may cut down on your exposure to blue light. Many developers also switch to buying Blue Ray protective glasses. I haven't used it till now but I'm thinking of purchasing it.

Visual Assist

Before we move further to our third extension here is another tool that is used with Visual Studio, not Visual Code. Visual Studio is one more software by Microsoft just like VS Code, which is used by professionals in enterprises for Developing and Writing code for C# mostly.

Visual Assist is for developers who code in C, C++, and C Sharp. It helps in many ways by refactoring, finding errors, formating, beautifying the code, and managing files by renaming. Also, it gives suggestions to make the code and project simpler, more efficient, and more understandable.

Indent Rainbow for VS Code

Talking about our third VS Code Extension we have Indent Rainbow. Indent Rainbow is an extension that is useful for managing different tab spaces are in our code. This extension will help you identify tab spaces by highlighting them with 4 different colors.

This extension is very useful while using Python. Because in python programming we don't use curly braces like C, C++, and Java, we use different tab spaces. In Python, we have to keep our code systematically with proper indentations, and while doing so we sometimes make mistakes.

If in case you think you have made such mistakes this extension will be helpful in finding such mistakes.

Autoclose Tags

Our fourth extension is a lot similar to our previous one. Autoclose Tag extension is helpful and acts as a shortcut while coding HTML Language. In HTML we need to open and close different tags. Where we make mistake is, we write the opening tag but sometimes forgets to put the closing tag.

This extension will automatically put the closing tag right when you write the opening tags. This will help you write your HTML code faster and also error-free.

REST Client

Last but not the least, our fifth extension is REST Client for PostMan. If you have heard about a company/programming software named PostMan which is currently a billion-dollar company. A postMan is a programming tool for working with the backend of web and software development including technologies like Javascript.

When developers using JavaScript need to exchange requests (GET and POST) between clients and servers. They can use PostMan Software for this. It becomes difficult for the developers to install PostMan with VS Code and then test those exchanges of requests.

That is why there is an extension REST Client you can get in VS Code which you can use to test those requests. This extension can handle both GET and POST Requests, displays the output as result. This becomes beneficial for developers as they can perform all their tasks in the same environment and don't have to use any other tools.

Also using PostMan alone as software is a lot difficult because it has been modified a lot. And using Postman with VS-Code is a lot more hassle-free in comparison.

Conclusion

I hope whatever I have discussed different extensions in this article, you will use them and I hope they will be helpful for you guys in writing your code faster. I will be bringing another such article in a few days. But till then Learn, Code and Practice.