Ten Must-Have Extensions for Visual Studio Code 🧑‍💻

My list of the basic extensions that any developer could need!

Francesco Pastore
7 min readJun 25, 2023

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Visual Studio Code is one of the most widely used editors nowadays. One of its best features is the possibility to easily extend it with plugins. However, there are a lot of extensions available to add.

In this article, we will explore my personal list of the ten must-have extensions that any developer could need.

  1. Codeium
  2. GitLens
  3. Conventional Commits
  4. Better Comments
  5. Atom Material Icons
  6. Error Lens
  7. EditorConfig
  8. Live Share
  9. Docker
  10. vscode-pdf

1. Codeium

The modern coding superpower: free AI code acceleration plugin for your favorite languages. Type less. Code more. Ship faster.

It’s hard to ignore the hype around AI and GPT models in these days. As developers, a significant chunk of our time is spent searching for answers on Google or StackOverflow (and now, with ChatGPT, even within conversations). But imagine having an assistant right in your editor, ready to suggest the next line of code for…

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Francesco Pastore
Francesco Pastore

Written by Francesco Pastore

An engineering student in Milan and a web developer for an IT company. Write about programming and cybersecurity topics.

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