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Top 23 Visual Studio Code Open-Source Projects
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Project mention: Scarab Diagnostic Suite Field Test #010: VS Code Input Geometry Boundary | dev.to | 2026-06-04
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Project mention: Why We Stopped Using vLLM 0.6 for Local LLMs in Favor of Ollama 0.5 for Code Tasks | dev.to | 2026-04-28
The Continue VS Code extension (https://github.com/continuedev/continue) has native support for Ollama 0.5, enabling seamless code completion and chat directly in your IDE without any cloud dependencies. To set up Continue with Ollama, install the Continue extension from the VS Code marketplace, then add the following configuration to your VS Code settings.json file. This will configure Continue to use your local Ollama instance for code completion, with the custom codellama-custom model we created earlier. Unlike cloud-based LLM extensions, this setup has zero latency from network requests, no data privacy concerns (all processing happens locally), and works offline once models are pulled. Our team saw a 30% increase in developer productivity after switching to local Ollama + Continue, as developers no longer had to wait for cloud API responses or worry about proprietary code being sent to third-party servers. Continue also supports chat-based code generation, where you can ask the local Ollama model to explain a function, write tests, or refactor code, all without leaving VS Code. This integration took 5 minutes to set up per developer, and eliminated our team’s reliance on cloud-based code LLM tools entirely.
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Project mention: 10 coding habits that turn devs into legends (or at least into deployers who don’t panic) | dev.to | 2025-06-26
Awesome VSCode Extensions
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vira-assets
Vira Theme is the official successor of the popular Material Theme. This premium version is actively maintained, includes hand-curated icons and more features
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Mastering-GitHub-Copilot-for-Paired-Programming
A multi-module course teaching everything you need to know about using GitHub Copilot as an AI Peer Programming resource.
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Some months back this repo on github had made a good looking vscode dark islands theme: https://github.com/bwya77/vscode-dark-islands
This "extension" however relied on a different extension that helped load in custom css alongside doing a bunch of unnecessary code patching to other parts of vscode. Not to mention, the install script permanently modified your settings.json file and completely changed it.
I forked a safer version of the theme that simply provides a CSS file and relies on a super minimal extension that simply inlines the custom CSS into one of VSCode's html files. Try it here: https://github.com/raaid3/vscode-dark-islands/forks
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I use a nice vscode extension called vscode-rest and I love it.
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vscode-remote-release
Visual Studio Code Remote Development: Open any folder in WSL, in a Docker container, or on a remote machine using SSH and take advantage of VS Code's full feature set.
Project mention: Upvote if you'd like the VSCode devcontainers extension open sourced | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-06-05 -
vscode-pets: it was my second cintribution and I added a setting so users can pick the ball color to throw from VS Code Settings instead of being prompted every time.
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code-settings-sync
🌴💪 Synchronize your Visual Studio Code Settings Across Multiple Machines using GitHub GIST 💪🌴
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vscode-git-graph
View a Git Graph of your repository in Visual Studio Code, and easily perform Git actions from the graph.
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NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Visual Studio Code projects? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | Visual Studio Code | 186,159 |
| 2 | continue | 33,664 |
| 3 | awesome-vscode | 28,614 |
| 4 | vira-assets | 11,322 |
| 5 | Mastering-GitHub-Copilot-for-Paired-Programming | 7,965 |
| 6 | vscode-dark-islands | 7,506 |
| 7 | polacode | 6,843 |
| 8 | vscode-restclient | 6,008 |
| 9 | vetur | 5,757 |
| 10 | prettier-vscode | 5,503 |
| 11 | vscode-go | 4,249 |
| 12 | vscode-remote-release | 4,120 |
| 13 | vscode-pets | 4,095 |
| 14 | code-settings-sync | 4,083 |
| 15 | aura-theme | 3,795 |
| 16 | git-split-diffs | 2,732 |
| 17 | vscode-project-manager | 2,445 |
| 18 | vscode-code-runner | 2,401 |
| 19 | live-share | 2,372 |
| 20 | vscode-git-graph | 2,355 |
| 21 | vscode-bookmarks | 2,134 |
| 22 | Python | 2,109 |
| 23 | marp-vscode | 2,061 |
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