By hovering on a color you can see a larger preview of how it looks, as well as info about its translation to all formats (hex, rgb, hsl, and cmyk). Small plugin that gives you various information about the colors you've used in your CSS. If you also want to throw ESLint in the mix, there is Prettier - Eslint. This extension makes it possible to automatically apply Prettier and quickly format whole JS and CSS documents. It allows your team's code look the same, no matter who wrote it. Prettier is the most popular code formatter in web dev right now. Just type html in an empty file, hit the Tab key, and a clean document structure will be generated. The HTML boilerplate extension will save you from having to manually write the head and body tags of a new HTML document. When you right click on a selector in your HTML files, choosing the options Go to Definition and Peek definition will send you to the CSS code in which you've styled them. WIth this extension you can trace the definitions of CSS classes and ids in your stylesheets. Each category has various subcategories so you can make the data fit your needs. You can generate random names, addresses, images, phone numbers, or just paragraphs of classic Lorem Ipsum. Quickly insert placeholder data using the popular Faker JavaScript library. The extension is easy to configure and works out of the box with JSX or TypeScript projects.

It shows you previews of the results of functions and calculated values for variables. Quokka is a debugging tool that gives live feedback on the code you are writing. This extension adds a Open With Default Browser item to the contextual menu, as well as command palette options for opening in a client of your choice (Firefox, Chrome, IE). VSCode doesn't offer any built-in interface for opening files directly in the browser. To help you pick out the ones worth downloading, we made this collection of the extensions we found most useful and fun. Just like most IDEs, VSCode has an extension marketplace containing thousands of plugins with varying quality.

It is quickly becoming a crowd favorite thanks to its excellent performance and the exuberant amount of features it offers. Visual Studio Code is a free, cross-platform text editor developed by Microsoft.

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