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Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

VS Code Round Two

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Js, Technology, Css, Html5, Tech News, Webdevelopment, News, Javascript, Html

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2018

⏱️ 69 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Scott and Wes are back with another round of tips, tricks and tasty treats for their favorite code editor, VS Code.

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Show Notes

01:45

06:05 - Favorite new updates

  • Notification API
  • Auto Import
  • Listing errors in the file explorer
  • Column Selection
  • Interface Customization
  • Hot Tip: Anytime you find yourself using your mouse, there’s likely a shortcut key for what you’re trying to do
  • React Snippets Library
  • Wes’ VS Code settings
  • Visual Studio Live Share

27:40 - Favorite/New Extensions

38:49 - Themes

40:35 - Tips and Tricks

  • Learn how to jump and select by letter, word, line, etc.
  • Move a line (or Line Bubbling) - Use this for rearranging and/or moving lines of code quickly.
  • Cycling through multiple windows of the same app - If you have multiple VS Code windows open, “Cmd + backtick” will cycle through them, so you don’t have to drag them in and out of view.
  • Adjust MacOS keyboard settings - change Key Repeat to “fast” and Delay Until Repeat to “short”. This will make your editor super fast when holding down arrow keys.
  • Use Git features
  • Spell Checker - “Cmd + .” will open up code actions and you check for possible misspellings, etc.
  • Rename Symbol - Much more reliable than find/replace.
  • Sort Lines
  • Select everything between quotes - (Cmd + Shift + Space)

57:25 - Things that could be improved

  • Region folding is inconsistent and sometimes doesn’t work at all.
  • No easy way to tell which extension is causing CPU performance issues.
  • Sidebar indentation isn’t clear.

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0:00.0

You're listening to Syntax, the podcast with the tastiest web development treats out there.

0:06.1

Strap yourself in and get ready.

0:08.1

Here is Scott Tolinsky and West Boss.

0:10.6

Welcome to Syntax, the podcast with the tastiest web development treats around.

0:17.4

With me as always, we have West Boss say what's up.

0:20.3

Hey everybody hope you're doing well today. Happy Memorial Day Scott. Hey, yeah in the US it is Memorial Day today and today we are going to be talking about V.S. Code again. It's going to be our part two to our V.S. Code episode that we did more than half a year ago and basically covering a lot of updates and changes in V.S. code since then, again, some of the extensions, tools, and tips and all. and I'd say. Yeah. Yeah. This episode is sponsored by Log Rocket and we'll talk a little bit more about Log Rocket later, but it's an excellent way to help debug your applications.

1:01.0

Cool. So, yeah, it's been, I think I counted like eight months, which blows my mind that we've been doing

1:05.8

this podcast for even eight months, but about eight months ago we made an episode on

1:11.4

V.S. Code and we went through some of our favorite tools and tips and whatnot and I know that we've our

1:16.9

Audiences has grown quite a bit since that time so I thought we would just start off and

1:20.8

explaining like why are we on VS

1:22.8

code I think I've been on it for almost a year now I've been on

1:26.4

VS code I think you've been on it even longer but I thought we just

1:29.5

take a quick maybe a couple a couple, impressive. I was on I was on

1:34.8

sublime tax for years and years before that and it was hard for me to switch over

1:39.6

just mentally, but once I actually did the switch over it was it was so nice and quick and let's just talk about like why do you use

1:46.8

VS code over anything else. Yeah for me it's the nice middle ground between something like

1:52.4

sublime which is performance but has kind of, in my opinion, not a great user experience.

1:58.0

And it has like a fine user experience. But like, I've never found debugging things going wrong in

2:03.9

sublime text to be very much fun. Yeah. Even as something as simple as

2:08.0

E. S. Lint not working now how do you figure out why it's not working in sublime text?

2:12.4

I just it's just working in sublime text?

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