VSCode.Email Issue #70 (A Batman-inspired Theme)

Issue #70 (A Batman-inspired Theme)08/23/23

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It's the last few weeks of summer in this part of the world (Toronto, Canada). The weather has been pretty decent so I've been doing lots of outdoor things. So I'll take a break from the intro tip this week.

The rest of the newsletter is the same as always, including a unique VS Code theme for this week's theme of the week!

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

VS Code Tools

VS Code Makefile Tools — Provides IntelliSense configurations to the VS Code C/C++ Extension for Makefile projects and provides convenient commands to build, debug, and run your targets.

Stylelint — Official VS Code extension for Stylelint, the popular CSS linter that helps you avoid errors and enforce good practices in your CSS.

Web Tools Weekly — If you haven't yet subscribed to my other larger newsletter for front-end and full-stack web developers, check it out. Every issue features the latest and greatest in tools for web developers. Sponsor

Postman for VS Code — VS Code extension for using Postman, the popular API testing platform, released earlier this year and currently in beta.

VS Code Theme of the Week

Batsignal — Yes, this is a VS Code theme with a Batman-inspired color palette! It includes interesting choices for the syntax highlighting that uses yellow in a fairly effective way. I wouldn't say it's my favourite theme but it's not bad!

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There's only one version of the theme and the syntax highlighting is the most noticeable change. There does seem to be a bit of a 'dark' feel to the rest of the UI as well, but everything outside the editor feels more or less the same.

VS Code Articles & Videos

Run WebAssemblies in VS Code for the Web — The VS Code blog looks at some background on WebAssembly in the browser and how you can run WebAssembly on VS Code for web.

20 Essential Python Extensions for Visual Studio Code — I don't share too many Python extensions in this newsletter, but here's a roundup if you're a Python dev.

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

▶ See Reference Counts for JavaScript and TypeScript with the References Code Lens — A YouTube short covering the references Code Lens feature that's built into VS Code for JS/TS.

Best of the Rest

Vim Boss — The creator of Vim, Bram Moolenaar, passed away early this month, and here's one of a few articles covering a little bit of his legacy.

SvelteLab — A supercharged REPL, or playground, for Svelte with tons of features including light/dark modes, a command palette, templates, packages, and lots more.

InfraCopilot — An advanced infrastructure design tool that understands how to define, connect, scale your infrastructure-as-code.

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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