VSCode Plugins

For All Purpose

Partial Diff

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Compare (diff) text selections within a file, across files, or to the clipboard

Remote Development Pack

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Includes 3 extentions for remote development, ssh, container and wsl. very useful especially when your code is for linux, but your workstation is windows.

Bracket Pair Colorizer 2

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A customizable extension for colorizing matching brackets.

Code Spell Checker

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Spelling checker for source code

Peacock

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Subtly change the workspace color of your workspace. Ideal when you have multiple VS Code instances and you want to quickly identify which is which.

vscode-pdf

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Display pdf file in VSCode.

For Git

GitLens

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Most popular git plugin in VSCode.

Git Graph

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Really convenient when you need know the whole picture of the repo.

For Web

For C++

CMake Tools

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Super powerful, change build variant/toolkits/target and run/debug from status bar.

For Java

For Docker

Docker

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Support Dockerfile, browsing docker images and containers etc.