VSCode is a great IDE to work with and very popular for couple of years.
Since I decided to start coding with node & react, I choose VSCode as my main IDE (I was a C# developer before, so I keep in team Microsoft)
From time to time I added, deleted or switch extension of VSCode

My currently extensions are:

• Auto Rename Tag

Instead of replace each tag, it renames paired tags. This extension is a MUST!

• Babel Javascript

This basically highlights the syntax of ES6/7/8/etc, ReactJsx

• Better Comments

I avoid to use comments, really. But sometimes someone add some comments and it's a good thing to highlight to see and make decisions like (refactoring, tech debt, etc).

• Bookmarks

In Visual Studio (in my C# days) I used a lot of bookmarks, so it's great to have this extension. Great way to navigate through your code.

• Bracket Pair Colorizer

This matches the brackets with colors. It's awesome!

• Code Spell Checker

My native language is Spanish and sometimes I make mistakes writing some variable in English, so this extension tells you if the word you typed is correct or not.

• Docker

I use docker a lot, and sometimes I'm lazy to start a container in the command line, so this is great tool to start, stop, delete a container.

• DotENV

Basically is a port of DOTENV for vscode

• Dracula Official

This is my currently theme. I use night owl and others but right now this is the theme for me. Maybe in the future I will change it again.

• ESLint

This extension integrates ESLint into VSCode and will let you know for eslint errors that need to be fix.

• GitLens

This is awesome to compare, see while you are coding, who was the last person to made the modification.

• Live Server

This launch a local development server with live reload

• Live Share

This is a great tool for collaboration. You can work with a partner in realtime, can debug, make call, share terminals. It's an awesome tool!

• Markdown All In One

This basically makes you markdown more pretty

• Path Autocomplete

Provides a path autocomplete for vscode

• Path Intellisense

Plugin that autocompletes filenames

• Peacock

This is an awesome tool to distinguish all your vscode windows.
You can set a color in your vscode workspace. I use to check my work and my personal projects

• Polacode

It create a nice code snippet to upload in your blog

• Prettier - Code Formatter

Great Tool for formatting. I super recommend it.

• Profile Switcher

I have lots of different configurations, work, personal, talk presentation.
With this extension I can change really quick instead of making modification in my json configuration file.

• Quokka.js

Great tool to test something really quick.

• Settings Sync

Instead of adding all the extensions each time I install vscode, I use this extension that keeps everything in sync. (extensions, settings, etc).

• TODO Highlight

Not much to say here, if you see a todo it will highlight.

• vscode-icons

Like my current theme is Dracula, this my current icons theme. Maybe in the future I will change it

If you have a good extension, please comment below.
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