End 2023 List of VSCode Extensions

VSCode extensions are power tools to add capability and customize your editor. VSCode is my IDE of choice to edit posts and write scripts/add-ins for Fusion. I am constantly adding capability with extensions.

Here is my end-of-2023 curated list.

• End 2023 List of VSCode Extensions
• Fusion 360 Tools
• Themes
• Markdown
• Graphing
• Code Productivity
• Text tools
• HTML
• Hardware development

Here are my current favorite extensions grouped by topic.

Fusion 360 Tools

• Python - Python language used for end user scripts and add-ins in Fusion.
• Fusion Add-in Helper - Fusion scripts and add-ins helper extension. Provides some useful utilities to make development easier.
• Black Formatter - Formatting support for Python. Useful to format fusion scripts and add-ins.
• Fusion Electronics (Eagle) ULP Syntax Support - Extend Fusion's ECAD tools.
• Fusion 360 Post Processor - Create and modify Fusion Post Processors written in Javascript.
• Prettier-Standard - Javascript - Formatting support for Javascript. Useful to format fusion Posts.
• Chatter NC Editor - Manage NC code files and send to (s)FTP hosts on your network.
• Sinumeric CNC - syntax highlighting for Sinumerik controller files i.e. .mpf
• Autodesk Platform services - Autodesk developer tools

Themes

• One Dark Pro++ - Theme Extension Pack (TPack) - Dark Blue application and syntax color scheme, pro dev fonts and icon sets.

Markdown

• Markdown All in One
• Markdown Preview Enhanced
• Markdown Footnotes
• Markdown Emoji
• Ghost Peddler - Publish to ghost.io
• Markdown to confluence for VSCode Extension
• VSCode-Pandoc - Render markdown as PDF, Word, ot HTML. Requires Pandoc to be installed.

Graphing

• Mermaid Editor -
• Mermaid Markdown Syntax Highlighting
• Mermaid Preview
• Graphviz Interactive Preview - View DOT files
• Markdown Mermaid Expand to PNG
• Markdown to confluence for VSCode Extension
• Draw.io Integration: Mermaid plugin
• Draw.io integration - unofficial extension to enable draw.io directly in VSCode
• LikeC4 - support for LikeC4 modeling graphs

Code Productivity

• Footsteps - Highlight and navigate through recently modified lines
• Formatting Toggle
• Path Intelisense
• Auto Close Tag - Automatically add HTML/XML close tags.
• Better Comments
• The Folding Stuff - extension that adds options to the context menu of documents open in VSCode.
• Bookmarks - Mark line and jump to them
• Dev Container - The extension starts (or attaches to) a development container running a well defined tool and runtime stack.
• Docker - Make it easy to create and manage Docker containers.
• Live Share - Enables you to collaboratively edit and debug with others in real time.
• Semantic Diff - Helps you understand code changes faster by removing noise and adding useful annotations.
• Binary PLIST
• Javascript (ES6) code snippets - Javascript code snippets.
• XML Tools - Tools to format, view as tree, evaluate and lint XML.
• Git Lense - Quickly glimpse into when, why, and by whom a line or code block was changed. Zero-in on the most important changes and effortlessly navigate through history to gain further insights as to how a file or individual line's code evolved. Visualize code authorship at a glance via Git blame annotations and Git CodeLens. Seamlessly explore Git repositories with the visually-rich Commit Graph. Gain valuable insights via GitLens Inspect, and much more.
• Project Manager - Easily access your projects, no matter where they are located.

Text tools

• Change Case - Quickly change case.
• Code Spell Checker
• Grammarly - Free simple grammarly based grammar checking.
• Word Count

HTML

• HTML Boiler Plate - Create a basic page automatically.
• HTML Preview - Preview HTML.
• HTMLtagwrap - wraps text with tags

Hardware development

• Arduino - Arduino extension makes it easy to develop, build, and deploy your Arduino sketches in VSCode.
• Serial Monitor - Serial Monitor provides a serial monitor to view output from as well as send messages to serial ports. This is often useful when testing or debugging programs on embedded devices.
• PlatformIO IDE - Embedded Software Development for: CMSIS, ESP-IDF, FreeRTOS, libOpenCM3, mbed OS, SPL, STM32Cube, Zephyr RTOS, Arduino, ARM, AVR, Espressif (ESP8266/ESP32), FPGA, MCS-51 (8051), MSP430, Nordic (nRF51/nRF52), PIC32, RISC-V, Raspberry Pi (RP2040), STMicroelectronics (STM8/STM32).

I hope you find some of these useful.