10 Visual Studio Code Extensions You Don’t Need

• prettier

  436 48,186 9.8 JavaScript

  Prettier is an opinionated code formatter.

  

  The problem is that for how opinionated prettier is, it sucks. It's just not a good formatter. It does things unpredictably, can produce produce invalid code after formatting and has no way of even wrangling it. This issue highlights my problems with it. It formats two lines completely differently based on the alignment of stars and you can't reliably force it to do things like keeping the lines separated

• black

  322 37,348 9.4 Python

  The uncompromising Python code formatter

  

  black for python is the gold standard of opinionated formatters. Zero config, checks for valid AST after formatting, allows for some flexibility by the way you arrange your code (dict keys get put in separate lines if you add a trailing comma) and is reliable and predictable. Nothing in JS comes close to that. Not even eslint

• SurveyJS

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  Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

  

• pages-gem

  586 1,806 8.1 Ruby

  A simple Ruby Gem to bootstrap dependencies for setting up and maintaining a local Jekyll environment in sync with GitHub Pages

  

  Alternative? Create a personal blog and post on Reddit. You can use https://pages.github.com/ as host. Have the code in a second repo, build files locally, push built code to the Pages repo, done.

• Visual Studio Code

  2,831 157,893 10.0 TypeScript

  Visual Studio Code

  

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