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Featured extensions on the Marketplace
The VS Marketplace has 6 featured extensions which are shown prominently on the MP site. We try to update this list every 1-2 months and we aim to showcase some new and interesting extensions.
So my ask for the community is to share your suggestions on what extension should be featured. Please provide a short reason why you think the extension is interesting.
Keep in mind the following:
- If an extension is suggested to be featured it does not mean we will feature it
- We do not want to feature extensions which have been featured in the past
- We do not want to update the featured list too often
- We do not want to feature extensions which are already popular
I recommend the Chalice icon theme. Previously I used another theme but had a bunch of overrides specifically to remove product logos with the language icon. For example I don't want the eslint logo for .eslintrc files, it makes more sense to use the json icon to me to simplify the number of icons I need to recognize. This theme is built specifically with that in mind.
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-playwright.playwright Looks like a high quality extension
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=CodeStream.codestream Highly rated, looks like an interesting alternative to the GitHub PR extension.
GitHub Copilot Labs seems to be popular on twitter https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=GitHub.copilot-labs
@misolori it is still in closed preview. So we might feature it some time in the future. But good suggestion.
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=mintlify.document Proposed by @bamurtaugh
We updated featured extensions last week. Assigning this to June so we update again start of June
If you have more ideas for extensions please comment here, thank you!
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Iterative.dvc (Data Version Control for VS Code) is my recommendation! The extension is coming out of preview shortly and helps solve the following problems:
- Experiments are hard for data science to track manually. Without a tracking framework, data science teams have to manually build infrastructure for individuals to organize and monitor experiment runs. Data scientists are motivated to track experiments as it provides structure around testing different hypotheses and initial states (e.g., set of hyperparameters, different features of a dataset).
- Often, different versions and samples of datasets are used to test model performance. Managing versions and samples manually is cumbersome. DVC provides a natural, git-like interface for defining dataset versions.
The Iterative & DVC teams have done a lot of work to garner community support around their open-source tooling. Having a VS Code extensions and promoting it as the de-facto tool to use with DVC will encourage more of the data science community to shift to our editor and use our native tooling (i.e., Notebooks, Python language support).
Burke mentioned inline fold which looks really cool https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=moalamri.inline-fold
This issue should not be about self promotion so try not to nominate your own extension
It cannot be helped. I want to promote my extensions:
Allows running multiple commands in sequence / with arguments from 1) Tree View 2) Quick Pick 3) Status Bar. Documents built-in VSCode commands with arguments in README & contributes a few useful commands like "Toggle Setting".
Creating and editing multi-line snippets in VSCode is not great. This extension uses markdown file as main snippets file which makes it easier to write, edit, read snippets & provides autocomplete for "scope" (languageId) & snippet variables $TM_SELECTED_TEXT.
From other authors:
Uses current theme colors to highlight code blocks in markdown preview.
@usernamehw this is nifty. I'm assuming you support setting up keybindings to run one of these sequence commands, I didn't see it in the README though. Might also be a good addition to the tree view, right click to add a keybinding which sends you to keybindings.json?
Yep. It registers all commands and the Tree View context menu has an item that opens Keybindings GUI:
@usernamehw nice, I see it now in the status bar gif. Might be worth adding it's own section to the README for assigning keybindings?
Hi folks,
I'd like to submit a new extension that we developed to improve API Development experience of VS Code users. So, far the response from the dev community has been amazing 3K+ installs and 5K+ downloads, with 12 five-star ratings.
RapidAPI Client for VSCode extension to be added to the featured sections of the MP Site.
🎥 Here's a quick video showcasing the extension.
https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/960133/181837984-ae91ed9d-385f-4e21-92a4-d60d6e97ea83.mp4
🆓 It's a completely free (offers cloud sync) 🚀 You can generate 40 different API Code snippets 🌱 Generate the TypeScript interface in a click from an endpoint response 🥳 It supports your favorite VS Code themes (we put extra effort in making sure API responses support VS Code themes, I'm the author of Shades of Purple theme so you can imagine I'm passionate about that and the contextual info VS Code offers).
I shared more on this Twitter thread and am happy to answer any questions y'all may have.
Looking forward!
@ahmadawais just a reminder of the guidelines in the original issue:
This issue should not be about self promotion so try not to nominate your own extension
@misolori I saw that, but I was referred to this issue by the official VS Code Twitter account. So, I figured it's worth a shot.
This may have been featured before, but throwing it out there again if we need another one because of how responsive the author has been: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=rangav.vscode-thunder-client
Another one for October https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=p42ai.refactor&ssr=false
Recommend:
- https://github.com/Gerrnperl/outline-map
- https://github.com/orta/vscode-twoslash-queries
What about Stepsize? We recently added it to our team and it allows us to track and tag technical debt right in VS Code. It’s been a game changer for us.
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Stepsize.stepsize
We have updated the featured extensions. Next update we can do end of October. Keep up the suggestions coming - thanks!
One of the coolest extension I think we should have this functionality by default in vscode or some kind of keyboard shortcut to toggle this option https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Cardinal90.multi-cursor-case-preserve
@abhijitchikane yeah that is pretty cool, we might feature it next time! Another candidate to feature https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=pawelgrzybek.gatito-theme A theme great for colour blind developers.
Run your Nightwatch tests from VS Code without switching windows or screens to run or debug your tests.
Here’s what you can do with the extension:
- Install Nightwatch
- Run and Debug your tests
- View test results
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=browserstackcom.nightwatch&ssr=false#overview
What about Stepsize? We recently added it to our team and it allows us to track and tag technical debt right in VS Code. It’s been a game changer for us.
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Stepsize.stepsize
Agreed, great extension that helps my team manage technical debt.
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=JannisX11.batch-rename-extension&ssr=false#overview
