Visual Studio Code is hands down the best coding editor on the market, plus its free.
However, when you do a search for Visual Studio Code extensions, you come up the same old list of
- Prettier
- Debugger for Chrome
- Settings Sync
- GitLens
These are the Visual Studio Code extensions; my developer guys and gals tell me to try all the time. However, I am an email developer and most of these extensions don’t amount to a hill of beans to me.
Don’t get me wrong, if I was a Front-End web developer or PHP developer, I’m sure I would use those extensions all the time to be more productive.
To be honest, I only use two Visual Studio Code extensions and here’s my list:
Live Server
Live Server allows you to see you emails in real time. Live Server will reload the page every time you make a change to automatically your latest update. Created by Ritwick Dey.
Live Server should be first tool in your email developer toolkit.
Email Snippet
Email Snippet is a hidden gem created by Ahsan Habib. A lot of email developers don’t know about this Visual Studio Code extension and it’s a crying shame. Email Snippet allows me to create faster emails using Visual Studio Code and was a game changer when I found it.
Show Email Snippet some love and add it to your email developer toolkit.
FINAL THOUGHTS
Those are the two Visual Studio Code extensions that I use as an Email Developer. Try them out and I hope they will be a game changer for you too.
Thanks for listening,
Ivan Hurt
HTML Email Developer
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