

Support for a library or framework comes in various ways, which mainly includes snippets, syntax highlighting, Emmet and IntelliSense features for that specific technology.

Thanks to the wonderful open-source community, the editor is now capable of supporting almost every programming language, framework and development technology. The power of VS Code no doubt comes from the marketplace. In addition, it also provides much-needed features like IntelliSense, which were only available in full-sized IDEs like Eclipse or Visual Studio 2017. However, its success mainly comes from its ability to provide better performance and stability.

It does borrow heavily from other popular code editors, mostly Sublime Text and Atom. Visual Studio Code is undoubtedly the most popular, lightweight code editor today. In this article, I’ll focus on a list of must-have VS Code extensions for JavaScript developers.
