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8 Killer VS Code Plugins To Improve Your Productivity

Must-have plugins to help you in your daily work

Jose Granja
Better Programming
6 min readMar 22, 2021

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VS Code is a great editor that ships with many features out of the box. That is one of the reasons why it’s the most used IDE. However, there are some areas where it can be improved — and that’s where extensions come into play.

I’m not a big fan of having many plugins installed. There is always the risk of making your editor slower or introducing too much magic into your daily routine. You still need to be in the driver’s seat.

That’s why I try to stay as close to the raw features as possible. I have no more than ten plugins installed at any given time. I try to be very tidy there. If you installed something and you feel it is not helping, just delete it. It might be distracting you or impacting performance.

However, there are some very specific extensions that will have a very important impact on your productivity. I want to focus on those in this article. You are most likely not going to need them all, as your workflow might be different than mine, but you might discover something new and useful.

1. GitLens

Visual Studio Code comes with basic support for Git functionality. However, it is very incomplete.

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Jose Granja
Jose Granja

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