11 VS Code Extensions I Wish I'd Installed Sooner

I've been using VS Code for 4 years. I found most of these in the last 6 months. 1. Error Lens Shows errors and warnings INLINE next to the code. No more hovering over red squiggles. ext install usernamehw.errorlens Why I wish I knew sooner: I spent years hovering over every underline. Error Lens shows the message right there. 2. GitLens See who changed each line and when. Blame annotations, file history, commit search. ext install eamodio.gitlens 3. Thunder Client REST API client inside VS Code. Like Postman but without leaving your editor. ext install rangav.vscode-thunder-client 4. REST Client Send HTTP requests from .http files. Commit them to git. Share with team. ### Get users GET https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/users ### Create user POST https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/users Content-Type: application/json {"name": "Alex", "email": "alex@example.com"} 5. Pretty TypeScript Errors Transforms TypeScript's cryptic error messages into readable, formatted output. ext install