

Highly recommended if you work with Typescript and/or Javascript.

This gives you a functionality similar to that of Live Templates in Webstorm/Phpstorm. This extension installs handy javascript snippets to speed up your development.

Allows you to check a file’s history, annotate them, explore repositories, see and compare your stashed items and so on.

Gitlens is a cool extension that can be used for all your git based tasks. IntelliSense for CSS class names in HTMLĪs the name suggests, this adds auto-complete support for css classes in your html files.Įxt install Zignd.html-css-class-completion # To install, Launch VS Code Quick Open (Ctrl+P) and execute the followingĮxt install k-kato.intellij-idea-keybindingsĢ. There are a few exceptions but its much better than having to learn new keyboard combinations all over. This extension ensures your transition to VS Code to be less cumbersome by allowing you to use the same keyboard shortcuts as you did with WebStorm/PhpStorm. Consequently, only the bare essential extensions have been listed. In general, to keep your IDE fast, the lesser the number of extensions, the better. You will find a list of useful extensions which are highly recommended to make your new IDE function just like Phpstorm/Webstorm. Thankfully, there are extensions to support almost every language and framework. If you haven’t, do so by downloading it from its official sourceīy default, VS Code does not come with out-of-the-box support for many languages like PHP, Java, Ruby, etc or even frameworks like React, Vue, Svelte, Symfony, etc. (In fact, faster than Webstorm/Phpstorm and lighter in terms of RAM usage)įirstly, you should have installed VS Code.
