3 Great Extensions for VS Code

Last week we explored five helpful extensions for Visual Studio. In this post, we will apply the same approach to Visual Studio Code (VS Code). VS Code relies heavily on extensions to provide even the most basic language-specific support within the editor. While we are used to install language specific extensions, we should also look a bit further and try some more general extensions.

The images in this post are from the documentation of the specific extensions.

Markdown Table

Markdown Table is a great help to format and navigate in Markdown tables. We can continue our work as usual and use the tab key to navigate between cells. Additionally, we can adjust the column width if necessary.

With the tab key we can jump through the table.

Code Spell Checker

Code Spell Checker is a spellchecker for code files. It spots our spelling mistakes and helps us to fix them:

We can add our own words to the spell checker, should it mark something as an error that is indeed correct.

indent-rainbow

Indent-rainbow gives us a coloured line for every indentation level. That way we can easily spot what levels belong together – that is especially helpful when the indentation level matters:

With every level the colour for the indentation line changes.

Conclusion

In VS Code we are so used to install language specific extensions that we may miss the more general applicable helpers. The three extensions I covered in this post help me a great deal when writing code. I hope they can help you as well.