7 VSCode extensions to improve productivity as a web developer

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🔹LIVE SERVER

Live Server sets up a local development server with a live reload feature for previewing your site

Every time you save your code, you'll instantly see the changes on the browser

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🔹ICON FONTS

Icon Fonts offers snippets for a variety of icon fonts, including the popular Font Awesome v5 icon pack.

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🔹REGEX PREVIEWER

Regex Previewer gives you a side document that matches your regex.

The extension gives multiple examples to match, so it becomes easier to write regex for different purposes

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🔹PRETTIER

Prettier is a code formatter which
formats your code every time you save it, significantly reducing the amount of time you need to spend formatting your code.

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🔹BRACKET PAIR COLORIZER

Bracket Pair Colorizer gives both opening and closing brackets matching colors, so it much easier to know which brackets belong together.

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🔹GIT HISTORY

Git History allows you to compare branches, commits, and files across commits without having to look through git log in the terminal, all from @code

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🔹PEACOCK

With Peacock, you can set and change the color of your Visual Studio Code environment. That way, you can quickly identify which instance you’ve just switched to.

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