The only IntelliSense plugin I’ve gotten to work well is PHP Intelephense. (this is a surprisingly frequent occurrence)Ĭan’t live without these bad boys: IntelliSense Vim - Useful for when I decide to use VIM mode only to switch back 4 hours later.Apparently, mine doesn’t work right for other people so ¯_(ツ)_/¯ Simple PHP CS Fixer - A little extension I wrote because all the other PHP CS Fixer extensions didn’t work right for me.Disable Ligatures - Allows you to disable ligatures under your cursor and enable/disable specific ligatures (I’m looking at you Elvis operator).

vscode-icons - A nice little icon set to make your file explorer fancier.

Sublime Text Keymap - If you’re coming from Sublime, this is a MUST.

Settings Sync - A really nice plugin that saves all your Code settings, plugins, and keybindings to your GitHub account (via GitHub Gist) and allows you to easily load them on a new machine.

htmltagwrap - Allows you to highlight a chunk of code and wrap it in an HTML tag.

ESLint - I don’t ES Lint often… but when I do….

Duplicate action - Why you can’t duplicate a file in the file explorer I don’t know… but this does it.

Custom CSS and JS Loader - For those pesky situations where Code doesn’t offer a config option.

Cobalt2 Theme Official - Wes Bos’s boss theme based on the classic Cobalt theme but with more modern colors.

Auto Close Tag - It’s kinda crazy that Code doesn’t do this for HTML tags by default, but this does a nice job.

vue files and probably other stuff I don’t notice but use all the time)

Vetur - Basically, this is all I’ve needed to make VS Code work well with VueJs (syntax highlighting for.

Check out this post by my bud Jose to get up and running: Debugging: Configure VS Code + XDebug + PHPUnit | Tighten

PHP Debug - Unlock the power of step debugging from your editor - if you came from a Sublime workflow, this is a huge level-up.

PHP DocBlocker - Does exactly what it’s supposed to do.Better PHPUnit - An easy way to run your tests from the editor - written by your’s truly ).PHP Intelephense - The only good PHP IntelliSense package for Code out there.I've set up these nifty categories, so feel free to jump around and try stuff out as you go, or come back later and use it as a reference. My setup is by no means perfect, but I've made lots of little tweaks along the way that you may benefit from. I’m using VS Code as my primary editor these days and am really digging it. I’ve since gone DEEP into the world of customizing VS Code and honing my workflow. Important Note: This post is an out-dated representation of my setup.

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