As developers we spend a lot of time in our editors. Today I wanna share some tips to get us comfortable in the place a lot developers in 2019 are spending time in, VSCode.

The Looks

The holy trinity of getting your editor to feel comfortable visually are the colours, icons and font, you can get both colour theme and icon themes from the extensions tab on the sidebar, and install fonts from the web the old school way. here’s a list of what I tried so far:

– Cool colour themes: Synthwave ’84, Night Owl.

– Goofy colour themes: Win ’95, Hotdog.

– Icon themes: material icon theme (rainbow orgy), Chalice (for the minimalists).

– Font: I like Fira Code font, with ligatures (the feature that makes your == and => look fancy) enabled. it looks similar to regular font and it’s open-source

A screenshot of my setup: Synthwave ’84, Material Icon theme and Fira Code font.

Give me some space

I really like my space that means I remove things that looks cool but I don’t really use, this includes:

– Breadcrumbs (the line that shows you the file path, or class/method name nesting)

– The minimap.

– Most of the icons on the activity bar.

And best for last: unless you write code in Arabic or Hebrew, move your sidebar to the right side!

No more tired eyes trying to follow the code every time you toggle the sidebar, and the code always starts from the corner of the screen.