Microsoft Visual Studio is an IDE Integrated Development Environment made by Microsoft and used for different types of software development such as computer programs, websites, web apps, web services, and mobile apps. It contains completion tools, compilers, and other features to facilitate the software development process.
I personally haven't tried any other IDE as I am a big fan of Visual Studio. However, there are various IDE's available like Sublime Text, Atom, Android Studio, Eclipse, etc.
It can be really time consuming when you have to go to the browser and refresh to see the changes that you have made. With Live Server Extension, you can launch a development local Server with live reload feature for static & dynamic pages.
While working in any programming language, there are multiple braces or brackets and sometimes it can be really hard to distinguish between the correct pair. Bracket Pair Colorizer Extension allows matching brackets to be identified with colours. The user can define which characters to match, and which colours to use.
Prettier is an opinionated code formatter. It enforces a consistent style by parsing your code and re-printing it with its own rules that take the maximum line length into account, wrapping code when necessary. Prettier Extension currently supports JavaScript, JavaScriptReact, TypeScript, TypeScriptReact, JSON, GraphQL.
An HTML tag is known as a paired tag where the tag consists of an opening tag and a closing tag.It can be really hectic to rename both the tags when needed. With Auto Rename Extension, when you rename one HTML/XML tag, it automatically renames the paired HTML/XML tag.
Well, the last one is completely personal. It is a theme extension that I feel reduces the strain on my eyes throughout the long coding sessions and it's not either too dark or too light. Cobalt Next is like if Oceanic Next and Cobalt2 made a baby in the form of a theme for VSCode.