Angular Useful Extensions

Raja Ram T
5 min readApr 2, 2020

Angular Useful Extensions

These Angular extensions are most popular (and some of my favorite), And It’s Very useful and speeds up your Angular Development.

Protip: I have created the “Angular Useful Extension Pack” for the quick and easy one-click install all below-listed extensions.

Angular Useful Extension Pack: This package installs all below-listed extensions at a time that will be very useful during Angular development.

  1. Angular Schematics

It allows you to launch Angular schematics (CLI commands) with a Graphical User Interface, directly inside the VS Code!

2. angular2-switcher

Switch .ts/.html in angular2 project.

3. Auto Import

vs code extension that will automatically find, parses and provides code actions for all available imports.

4. Auto Rename Tag

Automatically rename paired HTML/XML tags, the same as Visual Studio IDE does.

5. angular2-inline

VSCode extension that adds syntax highlighting for inline Angular2 templates.

6. Angular Language Service

Its provide a rich editing experience for Angular templates, both inline and external templates

7. Better Comments

The Better Comments extension will help you create more human-friendly comments in your code.

8. Bookmarks

It helps you to navigate in your code, moving between important positions easily and quickly. No more need to search for code.

9. Bracket Pair Colorizer 2

This extension allows matching brackets to be identified with colors.

10. CSS Peek

A vs code extension for peeking at CSS definitions from a class or id tag in HTML

11. Code Spell Checker

A simple source code spell checker for typescript and javascript

12. Debugger for Chrome

Debug your JavaScript code running in Google Chrome from VS Code.

13. EditorConfig for VS Code

This plugin attempts to override user/workspace settings with settings found in .editorconfig files

14. GitLens — Git supercharged

Supercharge the Git capabilities built into Visual Studio Code

15. Git History

View git log, file history, compare branches or commits

16. JSON to TS

Convert JSON object to typescript interfaces

17. Move TS — Move TypeScript files and update relative imports

extension for moving typescript files and folders and updating relative imports in your workspace

18. Nx Console

Nx Console for Visual Studio Code. The user interface app for the Angular CLI

19. Path Intellisense

Visual Studio Code plugin that autocompletes filenames

20. Prettify JSON

Prettify ugly JSON inside VSCode

21. Peacock

Subtly change the workspace color of your workspace. Ideal when you have multiple VS Code instances and you want to quickly identify which is which.

22. Prettier — Code formatter

Prettier Formatter for Visual Studio Code Prettier is an opinionated code formatter.

23. TypeScript Toolbox

Generate Getter and/or Setter Extension for Visual Studio Code

24. TSLint

VS Code extension that provides TSLint support using the typescript-tslint-plugin

25. SCSS Formatter

SCSS Formatter is an extension for the Visual Studio Code to format SCSS.

26. SCSS IntelliSense

IntelliSense for Variables, Mixins, and Functions in all Sass (SCSS syntax only) files

27. SimonTest

SimonTest is an Angular test generator

28. SonarLint

SonarLint is an IDE extension that helps you detect and fix quality issues as you write code in JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, and PHP.

29. vscode-icons

If you like all the above extension please install “Angular Useful Extension Pack” on a single click.

There will be some other useful and powerful extensions that will be useful that I’m not aware of, please feel free to tell us.

Thanks for reading, Happy coding! :) (y)

Raja Ram T
Raja Ram T

Written by Raja Ram T

I’m a Technical Lead Based in Hyderabad, India. I spend every day enthusiastically learning new technologies.

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