Misc Extensions

Todo Tree (ID: Gruntfuggly.todo-tree)

• This extension allows you to create TODOs in your code and then view them in a tree view.
• It supports a variety of languages and allows you to customize the regex used to find TODOs.
• It also supports a variety of themes and allows you to customize the colors used to display TODOs and other tags.

Settings Example

"todo-tree.general.statusBar": "current file",
    "todo-tree.general.showActivityBarBadge": true,
    "todo-tree.filtering.excludeGlobs": [
        "**/node_modules/*/**",
        "**/*env/**",
        "**/temp/**"
    ],
    "todo-tree.general.tagGroups": {
    
        "TODO": ["TODO", "[ ]", "[-]"],
        "NOTE": ["NOTE", "INFO"],
        "FIXME": ["FIXME", "FIXIT", "FIXTHIS"]
    },
    "todo-tree.general.tags": [
        "BUG",
        "HACK",
        "FIXME",
        "FIXIT",
        "FIXTHIS",
        "XXX",
        "NOTE",
        "INFO",
        "TODO",
        "[ ]",
        "[-]",
    ],
    "todo-tree.highlights.customHighlight": {
 
        "BUG": {
            "icon": "bug"
        },
        "HACK": {
            "icon": "alert"
        },
        "FIXME": {
            "icon": "tools"
        },
        "XXX": {
            "icon": "x"
        },
        "NOTE": {
            "icon": "note"
        },
        "TODO":{
            "icon": "issue-draft"
        }
    },
    "todo-tree.highlights.useColourScheme": true,
    "todo-tree.general.showIconsInsteadOfTagsInStatusBar": true

GitHub Copilot (ID: GitHub.copilot)

• This extension provides AI-powered code suggestions.
• It actually works pretty well and I use it a lot.
• It is currently writing this text for me. 😄

Beautify (ID: HookyQR.beautify)

• This extension is deprecated but I still use it because it works well for me.
• It allows you to format a variety of file types, namely javascript, JSON, CSS, Sass, and HTML.

Path Intellisense (ID: christian-kohler.path-intellisense)

• This extension provides auto-completion for file paths.
• It also supports auto-completion for import statements in some languages.

Remote Explorer (ID: ms-vscode-remote.remote-explorer)

• This extension provides useful features for working with remote files and folders through SSH.
• It allows you to connect to a remote server and then browse the files and folders on that server.
• It also allows you to use shell commands on that workspace as if it were a local workspace.

WSL (ID: ms-vscode-remote.remote-wsl)

• This extension provides useful features for working with WSL.
• It allows you to connect to a WSL instance and then browse the files and folders on that instance.
• This way you can use Visual Studio Code to edit and run scripts on your WSL instance.

Dev Containers (ID: ms-vscode-remote.remote-containers)

• This extension enables you to use a Docker container as a full-featured development environment. (For example, you can use it to run Python scripts without having Python installed on your machine.)
• It requires you to have Docker installed and configured.