Issue #51  (Tailwind Fold Extension)04/12/23

No intro tip this week, but I'll be back with one in next week's issue.

And just a reminder if you publish an article, tutorial, video, or extension for VS Code or any other IDE, feel free to hit reply (or message me via DMs on Twitter) and send me a link! I'll be glad to consider featuring it in the tools or articles sections in a future issue of this newsletter.

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

 

VS Code Tools

Tailwind Fold — A VS Code extension that improves code readability in Tailwind apps by folding class attributes.

ReacTree — A VS Code extension to visualize and navigate your React application by allowing you to view and manage your parent-child components in a hierarchy tree.

VS Code Infinite Workspace — An interesting albeit experimental VS Code extension that creates a Figma-like canvas experience in Visual Studio Code.

Learn to Code with React (Course Bundle) — 9 courses comprising 153 hours of material to level up your skills in React, Redux, React Testing Library, TypeScript, React Hooks, React Native, and more.  Sponsor 

BetterNaming — A VS Code extension that suggests meaningful names for variables, functions. and classes using OpenAI's text completions API.

VS Code Articles & Videos

▶ VS Code: Automatically Convert Your JavaScript Promise Chains to Async/Await — A quick tip from Umar Hansa, with an accompanying YouTube short (which he recently started doing regularly) on using VS Code's lightbulb feature on older code snippets.

Bytes: Your Favourite JavaScript Newsletter — I subscribe to a lot of newsletters, but this is definitely one I look forward to. Entertaining with lots of cool and useful JavaScript coding tidbits, news, and tools.  Sponsor 

▶ VSCode Tips and Extensions to Boost Your Coding Productivity — Uma Abu with a video where he covers some tips, suggestions, and extensions for maximizing your efficiency in VS Code. It's 13 minutes but you can use the chapter divisions to jump to the tips you want.

I Stopped Using Visual Studio Code — From August of last year, this is actually a plug for JetBrains' WebStorm, which the author has switched to. You might enjoy the feature comparisons he makes if you're considering switching IDEs yourself.
 

Best of the Rest

Top 10 Plugins for IntelliJ-Based IDEs — Includes plugins for theming, Material icons, Vim emulation, Git support, and more.

New in IntelliJ Rust for 2023.1 (Part 1) — If you use VS Code's Rust plugin, this covers the novelties, improvements, and refinements in the newest version.

Suggestions?

If you have any link suggestions, including a tool, article, or other resources related to VS Code or another IDE, send it via DM on X: @LouisLazaris or just hit reply on this email.

That's it for this issue.

Happy VS Coding!
Louis
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