Featured extensions on the Marketplace

[isidorn]

The VS Marketplace has 6 featured extensions which are shown prominently on the MP site. We try to update this list every 1-2 months and we aim to showcase some new and interesting extensions.

So my ask for the community is to share your suggestions on what extension should be featured. Please provide a short reason why you think the extension is interesting.

Keep in mind the following:

• If an extension is suggested to be featured it does not mean we will feature it
• We do not want to feature extensions which have been featured in the past
• We do not want to update the featured list too often
• We do not want to feature extensions which are already popular

[Tyriar]

I recommend the Chalice icon theme. Previously I used another theme but had a bunch of overrides specifically to remove product logos with the language icon. For example I don't want the eslint logo for .eslintrc files, it makes more sense to use the json icon to me to simplify the number of icons I need to recognize. This theme is built specifically with that in mind.

[isidorn]

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-playwright.playwright Looks like a high quality extension

[isidorn]

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=CodeStream.codestream Highly rated, looks like an interesting alternative to the GitHub PR extension.

[tjx666]

Recommend https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=dozerg.tsimportsorter

[miguelsolorio]

GitHub Copilot Labs seems to be popular on twitter https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=GitHub.copilot-labs

[isidorn]

@misolori it is still in closed preview. So we might feature it some time in the future. But good suggestion.

[isidorn]

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=mintlify.document Proposed by @bamurtaugh

[isidorn]

We updated featured extensions last week. Assigning this to June so we update again start of June

If you have more ideas for extensions please comment here, thank you!

[SiddhanthUnnithan]

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Iterative.dvc (Data Version Control for VS Code) is my recommendation! The extension is coming out of preview shortly and helps solve the following problems:

1) Experiments are hard for data science to track manually. Without a tracking framework, data science teams have to manually build infrastructure for individuals to organize and monitor experiment runs. Data scientists are motivated to track experiments as it provides structure around testing different hypotheses and initial states (e.g., set of hyperparameters, different features of a dataset). 2) Often, different versions and samples of datasets are used to test model performance. Managing versions and samples manually is cumbersome. DVC provides a natural, git-like interface for defining dataset versions.

The Iterative & DVC teams have done a lot of work to garner community support around their open-source tooling. Having a VS Code extensions and promoting it as the de-facto tool to use with DVC will encourage more of the data science community to shift to our editor and use our native tooling (i.e., Notebooks, Python language support).

[miguelsolorio]

Burke mentioned inline fold which looks really cool https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=moalamri.inline-fold

[usernamehw]

This issue should not be about self promotion so try not to nominate your own extension

It cannot be helped. I want to promote my extensions:

1. Commands

Allows running multiple commands in sequence / with arguments from 1) Tree View 2) Quick Pick 3) Status Bar. Documents built-in VSCode commands with arguments in README & contributes a few useful commands like "Toggle Setting".

2. Snippets in Markdown

Creating and editing multi-line snippets in VSCode is not great. This extension uses markdown file as main snippets file which makes it easier to write, edit, read snippets & provides autocomplete for "scope" (languageId) & snippet variables $TM_SELECTED_TEXT.

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From other authors:

1. Markdown Preview VS Code Highlighting

Uses current theme colors to highlight code blocks in markdown preview.

[Tyriar]

Commands

@usernamehw this is nifty. I'm assuming you support setting up keybindings to run one of these sequence commands, I didn't see it in the README though. Might also be a good addition to the tree view, right click to add a keybinding which sends you to keybindings.json?

[usernamehw]

Yep. It registers all commands and the Tree View context menu has an item that opens Keybindings GUI:

[Tyriar]

@usernamehw nice, I see it now in the status bar gif. Might be worth adding it's own section to the README for assigning keybindings?

[ahmadawais]

Hi folks,

I'd like to submit a new extension that we developed to improve API Development experience of VS Code users. So, far the response from the dev community has been amazing 3K+ installs and 5K+ downloads, with 12 five-star ratings.

RapidAPI Client for VSCode extension to be added to the featured sections of the MP Site.

🎥 Here's a quick video showcasing the extension.

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/960133/181837984-ae91ed9d-385f-4e21-92a4-d60d6e97ea83.mp4

🆓 It's a completely free (offers cloud sync) 🚀 You can generate 40 different API Code snippets 🌱 Generate the TypeScript interface in a click from an endpoint response 🥳 It supports your favorite VS Code themes (we put extra effort in making sure API responses support VS Code themes, I'm the author of Shades of Purple theme so you can imagine I'm passionate about that and the contextual info VS Code offers).

I shared more on this Twitter thread and am happy to answer any questions y'all may have.

Looking forward!

[miguelsolorio]

@ahmadawais just a reminder of the guidelines in the original issue:

This issue should not be about self promotion so try not to nominate your own extension

[ahmadawais]

@misolori I saw that, but I was referred to this issue by the official VS Code Twitter account. So, I figured it's worth a shot.

[Tyriar]

This may have been featured before, but throwing it out there again if we need another one because of how responsive the author has been: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=rangav.vscode-thunder-client

[isidorn]

@Tyriar cool idea, we can feature that one in the next update (October)

[isidorn]

Another one for October https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=p42ai.refactor&ssr=false

[tjx666]

Recommend:

• https://github.com/Gerrnperl/outline-map
• https://github.com/orta/vscode-twoslash-queries

[ve-varun-sharma]

What about Stepsize? We recently added it to our team and it allows us to track and tag technical debt right in VS Code. It’s been a game changer for us.

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Stepsize.stepsize

[isidorn]

We have updated the featured extensions. Next update we can do end of October. Keep up the suggestions coming - thanks!

[abhijit-chikane]

One of the coolest extension I think we should have this functionality by default in vscode or some kind of keyboard shortcut to toggle this option https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Cardinal90.multi-cursor-case-preserve

[isidorn]

@abhijitchikane yeah that is pretty cool, we might feature it next time! Another candidate to feature https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=pawelgrzybek.gatito-theme A theme great for colour blind developers.

[vaibhavsingh97]

Run your Nightwatch tests from VS Code without switching windows or screens to run or debug your tests.

Here’s what you can do with the extension:

• Install Nightwatch
• Run and Debug your tests
• View test results

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=browserstackcom.nightwatch&ssr=false#overview

[aw7032]

What about Stepsize? We recently added it to our team and it allows us to track and tag technical debt right in VS Code. It’s been a game changer for us.

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Stepsize.stepsize

Agreed, great extension that helps my team manage technical debt.

[isidorn]

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=JannisX11.batch-rename-extension&ssr=false#overview

[isidorn]

We have updated the featured extensions list.

[rogerbandito]

what about BLACKBOX?

[isidorn]

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=adpyke.codesnap

[Saggiehaim]

Hey, I would love to recommend https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=42Crunch.vscode-openapi This is a must have tool if you are working with API's and adopting the OpenAPI specifications.

[isidorn]

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=meganrogge.template-string-converter

[BeFunes]

Hello, I'd love to recommend the official CircleCI extension to be featured: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=circleci.circleci

Lots of VS Code users use CircleCI daily, and this extension makes it much easier to interact with it without having to leave the IDE. It also provides language support for CircleCI config files through a dedicated language server.

[jayu]

Hey! I would like to submit my extension for multiline and structural code search - CodeQue to be featured. It makes searching complex code patterns easy and makes development process faster and more efficient. Btw I've been redirected here from Twitter conversation 😄

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=CodeQue.codeque

[kingdonb]

I would like to submit the GitOps Tools extension for Flux for featured status. We will be on the VSCode livestream in about a week, we have created a new release and updated the README with fresh screenshots, to show off some new features.

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Weaveworks.vscode-gitops-tools

This extension is meant to help users learn about GitOps and take their first steps with Flux. It's quite similar to the Kubernetes Tools extension from Microsoft, and some features are integrated.

[isidorn]

Thanks for suggestions. We plan to update the featured list in 2-3 weeks.

Let me know if there are other good ideas.

[kingdonb]

Thanks. Our live stream got bumped a bit further out, so 2-3 weeks is perfectly fine for our timing. We'll have to re-schedule our live stream for a later date, but we're still looking forward to being a featured extension.

[tjx666]

recommend https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=zardoy.ts-essential-plugins, because this extension improve typescript dev experience much @zardoy

[tjx666]

both https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=benmcmorran.vscode-api-explorer @benmcmorran and https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=zardoy.ide-scripting @zardoy is useful for extension author newbie

[tjx666]

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=MohammadBaqer.better-folding @mtbaqer and https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Gerrnperl.outline-map @Gerrnperl used to be little hot for a while

[Alvina-Lee]

I second recommending Better Folding by @mtbaqer. It provides a lot of features I always thought VS Code has been lacking (for 7 years) compared to other editors

[isidorn]

Thank you for the recommendations and advice. I shared this with the Marketplace team and they told me they will update featured extensions to the following 6

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=CodeQue.codeque https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Weaveworks.vscode-gitops-tools https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=circleci.circleci https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=42Crunch.vscode-openapi https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=adpyke.codesnap https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=meganrogge.template-string-converter

Thus moving this issue out of March since we did the planned update. I expect this to reflect on the MP site in the next couple of days.

[sandrostar]

Hey @isidorn 👋!

For the next update of featured apps on Marketplace, I would suggest you Safurai: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Safurai.Safurai

It's an AI assistant that let developers save time in searching, changing and optimizing code. Hundreds of developers are using Safurai daily, and they love it to improve their workflow and experience in VS Code.

[sourishkrout]

Hi @isidorn!

I'd love to see Runme in the featured section: The extension that lets you run your README.md and other markdown docs.

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=stateful.runme

Thank you! -Sebastian

[GadiZimerman]

Hi @isidorn,

I'm excited to submit the new extension that we've developed at CodiumAI for the next update of featured apps on the marketplace. The feedback from the dev community has been amazing 🎉 with over 30K+ installs and 50 five-star ⭐ ratings.

Here is a link 🔗 to our marketplace extension: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Codium.codium

Main features 📋:

• It's an AI-based tool that automatically generates meaningful unit tests, finds, and fixes bugs in your code
• It's completely free for developers
• It supports Python, TypeScript, and JavaScript and multiple frameworks
• Supports Chat (free text requests)

Thank You 🙏,

Gadi Zimerman

[seaniyer]

Hey everyone,

If you have any other suggestions for the Featured VS Code extensions, share them soon! We are planning to update the list on the Marketplace site shortly and two more suggestions will give us a full set (6) for the next update.

Cheers!

[tjx666]

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=yoavbls.pretty-ts-errors

improve typescript experience

[jayu]

As an author of currently featured extension, I can highly recommended this one.

It's huge time saver for Typescript devs. More developers should know it exists 😁

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=stringham.copy-with-imports

[sourishkrout]

Hi @isidorn!

I'd love to see Runme in the featured section: The extension that lets you run your README.md and other markdown docs.

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=stateful.runme

Thank you! -Sebastian

I wanted to throw Runme's hat in the ring again, @seaniyer. Thanks for your consideration!

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=stateful.runme

PS: In case it wasn't already counted into the 4 out of 6.