Change Color Picker mode
I have begun to move most of my colors on my website to using HSL and needed an easy way to select colors. I discovered that by clicking on the status bar in the color picker, you can change the color format. At the moment it supports RGB, Hex, and HSL.
Auto format the document on save
I hate unformatted code. It's hard to read, takes long to debug, and as someone who is a bit of a perfectionist, it irks my soul. But alas, VSCode to the rescue again. Deep in the settings, you can your code formatted automagically✨.
This setting is in:
Settings > Text Editor > Formatting
There's also a setting to format on paste! Great for keeping those Stack Overflow snippets formatted the same as the rest of your code.
Linting your grammer
Okay, this one isn't built into vscode, but it's an amazing plugin I discovered. As a developer trying to get better at writing, this one has been useful. I'm using it right now to write this blog post.
Its called Write Good Linter and you can think of it as the Hemingway editor built into vscode. After installing it, the plugin will detect any unnecessary grammar and put a little squiggle under words that need adjusted.