Visual Studio Code

General Settings

settings.json

Keybindings

For Mac
For Linux
Modifications
- Set back-forward navigation (helpful when using go-to-definitions)
- Switch between the terminal and the editor
- Switch between tabs (similar to the system console/terminal)
- Switch Terminal windows
- Replace "Reload Window" shortcut with "Start Debugging"
- Disable debugger controls

Extensions

General

Settings Sync
- Synchronize VSCode settings across multiple dev env's
- Supports pragmas for toggling depending on host (ex. "office", "home")
Use Hack for the font
- Provides consistent monospaced font for Windows, Mac, or Ubuntu
- Distinguishes between zeroes from letter O's
- Distinguishes between letter I's and letter L's
indent-rainbow - Use colors to mark indentation levels
Comment Divider - Divide code into sections with comment headers
Terminals Manager - Auto-create multiple Terminal windows on startup
Path Autocomplete - Auto-completion of filenames
Path Intellisense - Auto-completion of filenames
vsc-rename-files - Rename multiple files
Live Share - Collaborative editing and debugging

Themes

Dracula Official - Soft Dark Theme
Material Icons - Show type-appropriate icons for files/folders in Explorer

Documentation

markdownlint - Lint Markdown files
Markdown PDF - Export Markdown files to PDF or HTML
Todo Tree - Finds and lists all the TODO comments from your codes

Configurations

DotENV - Adds support for .env files
YAML - Adds validation, completion, and formatting of YAML files

Source Control

Git

Git Graph - View history and diffs from a tree-like UI
gitignore - Add .gitignore from github/gitignore repo

Language/Technology-Specific

Bash

Bash IDE - Adds code completion, outline, and jump to declaration for Bash script
Bash Debug - Adds launch configurations for bash scripts
shellcheck - Linter and static analysis tool

Docker

Docker - Manage Docker images/containers right from VS Code

Kubernetes

Kubernetes - Manage K8 clusters and adds intellisense for resources

Python

Python - Adds support for linting, debugging, intellisense, syntax highlighting
- How to configure linting and formatting of Python files?
- How to specify path to virtual environments?
Pylance - Language server for the Python extension on VS Code
autoDocstring - Adds docstring templates
isort - Organize imports using isort

C++

C++ - Adds support for debugging, intellisense, syntax highlighting
cpplint - Adds support for linting C++ files
CMake - Adds support for syntax highlighting and intellisense

HTML

Auto Close Tag + Auto Rename Tag
Highlight Matching Tag
Color Highlight - Show hex values in their actual color

JavaScript

ESLint - Add support for linting JS files
Vetur - Vue.js tooling