Issue #163  (An AI Assistant for Large Codebases)06/04/25

In case you missed it, last year VS Code added a feature called Paste with imports for JavaScript and TypeScript. This means if you're copying and pasting code from one file to another, if the code requires an import you can paste the import along with it in the new file.
 
As you can see in the above example, after copying and pasting to the new file, VS Code pastes just the copied text by default but then provides a paste control option.

You can click on the control and you'll have the option to "Paste with imports". This inserts the necessary imports to make the code work.

If you want to paste with imports by default, you can edit the setting called editor.pasteAs.preferences. As the UI settings point out, this is editable only via the JSON settings file.
 
So the new value in your JSON settings would look like this:
 
This forces the editor to always attempt to paste with imports.

Of course, you might never use this feature so if you don't want to see the paste control appear, you can disable it by changing the Update Imports on Paste settings for JavaScript and/or TypeScript.
 
Definitely a useful feature that you'll want to use if you work often with JavaScript and TypeScript modules.

Now on to this week's hand-picked links!
 

VS Code Tools

Traycer — An advanced AI coding assistant for VS Code that's designed to work on large codebases using tasks, real-time code reviews, and an optional GitHub app for tickets via GitHub issues.

search in open files — A VS Code extension that lets you search in open files using the native VS Code search option, adding two commands to the command palette, "Search: Find in all Open Files" and "Search: Find in Files of the Active Tab Group".

CodeRabbit: Free AI Code Reviews in VS Code — CodeRabbit brings AI-powered code reviews directly into VS Code, Cursor, and Windsurf. Get free, real-time feedback on every commit, before the PR, helping you catch bugs, security vulnerabilities, and performance issues early.   Sponsor 

ReSharper — A VS Code extension for the ReSharper extension, originally for JetBrains and for helping with the development of .NET apps.

VS Code Articles & Videos

Announcing a New IDE for PostgreSQL in VS Code from Microsoft — Official announcement of the public preview of the brand-new PostgreSQL extension for VS Code, designed to simplify PostgreSQL database management and development workflows.

Security Blindspots in Closed Source Forks — A discussion of tools like Cursor, which are closed-source forks of VS Code with security lag, and what steps you can take to improve the situation.

Start Building Job-ready Tech Skills Today — Learn AI skills for any industry and get hands-on experience using the latest tools in tech. VSCode.Email readers can get 15% off a year of Codecademy Pro when you use code SKILLUP15.   Sponsor 

ReSharper Comes to Microsoft Visual Studio Code: Public Preview Now Open — Article from the JetBrains blog announcing the new ReSharper extension for VS Code and what it offers.

Best of the Rest

CodeCafé — A hyper-collaborative, real-time development environment right in your browser that makes pair programming, teaching, and building web projects together easy.

Understanding the Origins and the Evolution of Vi & Vim — A trip back to the origins of UNIX text editors with a look at the important players and historical events that shaped their evolution.

Web Tools Weekly — A weekly newsletter featuring tools, plugins, scripts and other useful stuff for front-end developers, full-stack developers, app developers, mobile developers, and more.   Sponsor 

OpenAI Codex CLI — From OpenAI, a lightweight coding agent that runs in your terminal.

Suggestions?

If you have any link suggestions, including a tool, article, or other resource related to VS Code or another IDE, you can hit reply, send it via DM on X, or via chat on Bluesky.

That's it for this issue.

Happy VS Coding!
Louis
VSCode.Email
@LouisLazaris