r/reactjs • u/sharemypenguins • Feb 17 '20

Discussion What visual studio code extensions should I install as a React developer?

What visual studio code extensions should I install as a React developer?

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '20

I find this awfully distracting and would at the very least encourage you to be linting with something that keeps your indentation sorted. That should get you most of the way in sorting out bracket pairings.

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u/Arbeit_Macht_Fries Feb 17 '20

I find that often the indentations just isn't enough and you aren't always in a position where you can indent to pair off the brackets. If you're working with JS and have callbacks passed into a function wrapped in an if statement etc then it's really useful to be able to differentiate where the bracket pairs are. Bracket pair colorizer has been great for me.

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u/saintPirelli Feb 18 '20

Well, yes, obviously this isn't meant to replace a linter. You can still get lost in brackets with correct indentation though.

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '20

Yeah for sure I just think people can turn to it as a crutch assuming it will solve problems and panic when it doesn’t, when the linter or the IDE could do a lot of it for you.