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Vscode

My Setup

Here are the tools I use in my VSCode setup, in case they help someone else.

For context, I primarily write/deal with:

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Bracket Pair Colorizer (1.0.61)

Useful for matching densely nexted brackets/parens by changing colors

indent-rainbow (7.4.0)

Makes everything in the same alignment the same color of indentation, and marks in red things that are off-standard-indentation.

Indenticator (0.7.0)

Highlights current indent level

vscode-json (1.5.0)

For beautifying/uglifying JSON

Code Formatting

black

Write crappy Python code and transform it into good stuff

Prettier (5.7.1)

Same idea, but for JS

Lifestyle

filesize (2.1.4)

Show current file size in toolbar

Gherkin Table Formatter (1.0.3)

Hand formatting tables sucks, and this does it for you.

EditorConfig for VS Code (0.15.1)

Support for the Editorconfig standard

Language-specific

Python (2020.9.large)

Required for good Python experience.

Go (0.18.0)

Go snippets and macros.

Djaniero (1.4.2)

Django snippets

Vetur (0.28.0)

Tooling for Vue.

ESLint (2.1.13)

JS Linting

Hugo Snippets (0.4.1)

Convenient snippets for things like highlighting when writing in the Hugo blog.

Docker (1.7.0)

For navigating all the container infra.

Hadolint (0.3.0)

This one is excellent. It lints your Dockerfiles for antipatterns and suggests the more optimal way to do it. Write amateurish Dockerfiles and follow its advice to make good ones.

AWS

AWS Toolkit (1.15.0)

A really excellent addon. Puts a heads-up view of your AWS stack into your editor.

Cloudformation Linter (0.15.1)

Find problems in your Cloudformation yaml ASAP.