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Notes from watching frontendmasters.com's workshop VS Code Can Do That? Many of these are opinions of the presenter. I'm just recording the ones I'm interested in (ignoring others).

Themes

Opinion: Light themes are better Themes to try:

  • Light: Hop Light, Night Owl Light
  • Dark: Night Owl, Cobalt 2

Icons

Opinionated Settings

  • Minimap: Turn it off (Settings -> Minimap). Takes too much space, isn't too useful. (Yep, I've had it turned off forever)
  • Sidebar: Move it to the right side (CMD+SHIFT+P: Toggle Side Bar Position). Because now your code won't move around when you open close the sidebar! :mind-blown:
  • Open Editors feature of side bar: Turn it off (Settings -> open editors visible, change the number to 0) Yaaas

Emmet

I've always known it has tons and tons of things I should use and his presentation confirms that again for me. Someday maybe...

  • lots of CSS property shortcuts like h100p -> height: 100%, mh -> min-height, etc.
  • balance inward/outward (auto-selecting the containing element) plus map those to keyboard shortcuts
  • wrap with abbreviation plus map to keyboard

Prettier

He extolls the virtues of Prettier, but I'm already on that bandwagon. Moving on...

Side Bar

  • NPM Scripts: why have I never looked at it? I just open the package.json

Extensions

  • Version Lens: adds prompts in your package.json telling you what the latest version of deps is. Maybe nice if you're in a position to update.
  • Simple React Snippets: presenter's own package of snippets

When Things Don't Seem Right, reload

  • CMD+SHIFT+P Reload Window

Code Folding

  • Folding persists through file closing/opening
  • Custom folding regions can be created with
//#region
a lot of code
//#endregion

or in HTML

<!--#region
a lot of code
#endregion-->

Multiple Cursors

  • Skipping instances: Ooo, when you're using CMD+D to add a matching cursor you can skip a match by pressing CMD+K then when you hit CMD+D again it'll add a cursor for the next match but also skip the one you were on when you pressed CMD+K. Nice!
  • When in file Find, pressing OPT+ENTER adds a cursor for each match in your current document. That's awesome bc it's a good way to use regular expressions to find then get a cursor to each match. Very nice!

File Switching

  • CMD+P the list you see there is the recently used files and if you just hit P again (so CMD+PP) it highlights the last one you were one. Therefore CMD+PP toggles between the two most recent files you've been in. Useful!