My Visual Studio Code Setup: Extensions and Themes

My Visual Studio Code Setup: Extensions and Themes

Matthias Ott has published his VS Code setup, and it's the kind of list that's hard to resist for anyone who lives in the editor. We all want to make sure we're squeezing every bit of productivity out of it.

A few items from his roundup stood out:

• Bracket Pair Colorizer has moved to a v2 release, and it's a separate install from the original.
• An extension exists to honor .editorconfig files, though it turns out you don't actually need one for that.
• PHP Intelephense is worth a try if you work with PHP, though it has fewer users than the non-weirdly named alternative. Installing it also surfaced Format HTML in PHP, which handles formatting even Prettier's PHP add-on can't manage.

Pruning extensions is also a decent chance to clear out the old junk you've accumulated.

The core idea of that series is stripping the VS Code interface down in extreme ways.

Here's the direct link to Ott's full notes.