Issue #91 (Customizing VS Code's Menus)01/17/24
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If you want to simplify the VS Code UI to look cleaner, you have the option to hide any of the commands that appear on any toolbar.
For example, if you're in the Run and Debug panel, there's a few buttons you can use that are part of that pane's toolbar. If you right-click either of those buttons, you'll have the option to hide each of them from view.
Here's the same view with those two buttons removed:
If you want to restore those buttons again, you can right-click the toolbar area to re-enable one, or right-click the "View and More Actions..." menu (the three dots) and choose "Reset Menu".
And if you happen to have made a bunch of different toolbar customizations and want to restore all of them, you can open your Command Palette and type "Reset All Menus", to restore your menus to their default states.
Now on to this week's hand-picked links!
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VS Code Tools
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Smart File Templates — A VS Code extension that lets you create your own file templates that are suggested based on RegEx rules that you provide beforehand.
Quack AI — A web-based AI companion for collaborative software development, also available as a VS Code extension.
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Recompyle — A developer-friendly alternative to console.log debugging that includes a VS Code extension and JetBrains plugin.
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VS Code Theme of the Week
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Electric Purple — This is a single VS Code theme for purple lovers that has some nice syntax highlighting. There's a little about the theme that might be abrasive but the coding area is easy on the eyes.
I'm using this theme at the top of this issue for the screenshots in the intro tip. As you can see, it's a little over-the-top in the screenshots, but I do find it's much nicer in full context with the editor.
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VS Code Articles & Videos
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Debugging Dockerized Python Apps in VS Code — Goes through the steps to set up the native debugger to step through application code running inside Docker containers.
GIGO and VS Code: The Battle with Microsoft — One team's anecdote in dealing with some of the roadblocks that arise when creating VS Code extensions.
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Share Your Editor Setups — Thread on X where Tomek Sułkowski of StackBlitz asks his followers to share their editor setups, many in VS Code. You might find something in the thread that you'd like to add to yours.
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Best of the Rest
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Heynote — A dedicated scratchpad for developers that provides a large, persistent text buffer divided into blocks, with syntax highlighting and formatted JSON support.
screenshot-to-code — A simple app that uses GPT-4 Vision to convert a screenshot to code in HTML, Tailwind, React, Bootstrap, or Vue format.
Openlib — Easily reuse your web components, hooks, helper functions, configuration files or anything you want, in a blink of an eye.
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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@LouisLazaris
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