umarov / know-your-tools

Repo to show cool tips and tricks about development tools

Know your tools

A repo to show some cool things you can do with your tools to improve your productivity

VS Code

VS Code specific tips and tricks.

Command Pallet

• Command + Shift + P or Control + Shift + P

Breadcrumbs

Snippets

• Custom Snippets

• Built in snippets

• Sarah Drasner's Vue Snippets

• JS ES6 Snippets

Vetur

• Syntax Highlighting
• Snippets
• Linting
• Autocomplete
• Error checking

Emmet

Smart selection expansion

Jump back to previous cursor or selection

• Command + U or Control + U to jump back

Reopen previously closed file

• Command + Shift + T or Control + Shift + T

Multi cursor

Indenting with Control + [ or ]

Terminal

• Split Terminals Control + \
• Move between them with Alt
• Change direction
• Being able to use your own shell
• Expand terminal
• Terminal tabs
• Terminal tabs for workspaces (mention in the workspaces section)

Closing tabs in one group, closing tabs in the whole window

Zen Mode

• Command + K Z or Control + K Z

Live Share

• Share code
• Share terminal
• Share server
• Voice Chat over Live Share

Prettier to Format the code

JS Type checking

GitLens

Settings Sync

• Use gist to upload/download settings
• Auto-upload every time a setting/extension/shortcut/snippet changes
• Auto-download on booting VS Code

Project Manager

• Provide a directory with projects
• Switch between them with Alt + Shift + P

Workspaces

• Including multiple projects in one VS Code window
• Being able to open terminals for each
• Combined Git experience

Debugging Node and Vue projects

• Command + Shift + D
• Log point
• Log point with variables

Browser Preview

• Debugging on browser preview

Auto imports on TypeScript projects

Refactoring

Other cool extensions

• markdownlint
• Log File Highlighter
• Import Cost