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20 Free VS Code Extensions That Actually Improve Productivity

VS Code's extension marketplace has thousands of tools, but most are bloated, slow, or track your usage. Here are 20 lightweight alternatives.

Code Quality

• Todo Highlights — Color-code TODO, FIXME, NOTE, and HACK comments
• Error Lens Lite — Show errors inline at the end of each line
• Bracket Scope Labels — See what each closing brace belongs to

Debugging

• Console Ninja — Insert/remove console.log with one shortcut
• Regex Tester — Test patterns inline with match highlighting
• Log Highlighter — Color-code ERROR/WARN/INFO in log files

Git

• Git Blame Inline — Lightweight line-by-line blame annotations

Editing

• Auto Rename Tag — Edit one HTML tag, the pair updates automatically
• JSON Sorter — Sort JSON keys alphabetically
• Lorem Generator — Generate placeholder text with commands

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Download all 20 VS Code extensions — free, MIT licensed, zero tracking.

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