A list of useful extensions for Visual Studio Code that I’ve found improved how I write code.

• Bracket Pair Colorizer
  • Colours brackets and parentheses in your code, making it much easier to see where your code blocks are.
• Better Comments
  • Colours your comments based on what you're using them for. Makes it much easier to see when you need to go back and fix something you left a comment about
• Todo Tree
  • Adds a new tab in the navigation pane showing all your "//TODO:" comments, making them easy to find and work through. Great when combined with Better Comments.
• Highlight Bad Chars
  • Sometimes when copying code from another application, the wrong character can be used - for example "̵ " instead of "-". They look identical, but can cause code exceptions. This extension highlights them for you.
• TabOut
  • Allows you to press tab to jump out of quotes, brackets etc. Very useful when combines with VSCode's auto closing tabs feature.