VS Code: Some good plugins

I am studying Angular 11 and during the practice I'm using VS Code to code. VS Code is a fantastic IDE. I've been using Eclipse IDE for many years, but I never did install plugins to help with autocompletion in HTML or Java. I just used the Dracula Theme.

Eclipse IDE is full of features even without plugins. But using VS Code I could see how handful and powerful the plugins can be.

Sublime VSCode Theme

After install VS Code we could see its Dark Theme as default. It's very beautiful, let's take a look at it:

At least to me the code is not very highlighted. E.g., in the code above we have dark blue and light blue on a dark background.

VSCode comes with other themes. I will show another later. Now to use a theme that highlights the code better, we can use the Sublime VSCode Theme.

Now we can see the differences. It could be just a matter of taste, but I prefer the second one.

To install this plugin, you can click on Extensions on the left-hand side bar and search for Sublime VSCode Theme on the "Search Extensions in Marketplace" input. Click on the Sublime VSCode Theme shown:

 

On the right-hand side, click on install.

To apply the plugin we can use the menu File > Preferences > Color Theme and select Sublime VSCode Theme in the list.

The only problem is I don't like the gray bar on the left. And I found out VSCode uses the same colours as the Monokai theme. And in fact, Sublime plugin uses Monokai.

So If you don't like the gray left bar, you can use the Monokai theme. As I said, I would show another theme.

Finally:

• If you like Sublime theme, you can install Sublime VSCode Theme;
• If you don't like the gray left bar of Sublime theme, you can use the Monokai theme.
• To see other themes, you can use the menu File > Preferences > Color Theme.

I don't wanna make this post very long, so I'm gonna talk about other plugins on the next post.