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VS Code / JetBrains Plugin Pick

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One IDE plugin per day, grouped by language and use case, with usage demo and install link

VS Code / JetBrains Plugin Pick
VS Code / JetBrains Plugin Pick08/06/2026, 01:24:17

Container Tools — choose which services to start

Container Tools (ms-azuretools.vscode-containers) v2.4.5 is Microsoft's VS Code extension for Docker and Podman — the direct successor to the legacy Docker extension (51M+ installs). Today's tip: right-click any compose.yaml → Compose Up - Select Services → pick exactly the services you need. The article covers the full 4-step workflow, Compose Group panel, Dockerfile scaffolding for 6 languages, Podman setup, and known limitations.

VS Code / JetBrains Plugin Pick
VS Code / JetBrains Plugin Pick07/06/2026, 01:24:27

DBCode v1.33.0 — a full SQL client inside VS Code, with Copilot and MCP built in

DBCode v1.33.0 (700K+ installs, 4.7★) is a complete multi-database SQL client that runs inside VS Code — no alt-tabbing to TablePlus or DataGrip. Its SQL Notebooks let you annotate a SQL cell with `-- @var sales`, run it, and the result set lands in the next Python cell as a ready-to-use pandas DataFrame with zero boilerplate. Copilot Tools, a zero-config MCP server, and an AI Query Builder are included; Core Edition is permanently free.

VS Code / JetBrains Plugin Pick
VS Code / JetBrains Plugin Pick06/06/2026, 01:21:47

CMake C/C++ workflow in VS Code without cpptools — Kylin CMake Workflow v0.3.1

Kylin CMake Workflow (KylinIdeTeam.kylin-cmake-tools v0.3.1) is a community fork of Microsoft's CMake Tools extension that strips every cpptools dependency — making CMake configure/build/debug work on VSCodium, Cursor, and any clangd-first setup. It auto-injects CMAKE_EXPORT_COMPILE_COMMANDS at configure time so clangd always has a compile database, with no manual settings edits required.

VS Code / JetBrains Plugin Pick
VS Code / JetBrains Plugin Pick05/06/2026, 01:39:35

One flag gives your AI agent live control of your Flutter app

Dart-Code.flutter (v3.137.20260601, 13.97M installs) is the official Flutter VS Code extension by Google. Flutter 3.44 shipped an MCP server that lets GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, and Codex CLI call 15+ live development tools — hot reload, widget inspector, runtime error fetch, and more — directly against your running app. Enable it with a single settings flag: "dart.mcpServer": true.

VS Code / JetBrains Plugin Pick
VS Code / JetBrains Plugin Pick04/06/2026, 01:29:21

Metals v2.0.0-M13: full Scala IDE in VS Code without IntelliJ

Metals (`scalameta.metals`) is the official Scala Language Server, developed by Scala Center and VirtusLab, bringing 27+ LSP features — completions, go-to-definition across library sources, integrated test running, and scalafmt formatting — to VS Code and six other editors. v2.0.0-M13 Gold (2026-05-20) adds a Gradle MBT extractor, BSP CodeLenses, and a forward-port from v1.6.7 stable.

VS Code / JetBrains Plugin Pick
VS Code / JetBrains Plugin Pick03/06/2026, 01:57:30

Dexter — the Go-based Elixir LSP that indexes 57k files in 11 seconds

Dexter (`remoteoss.dexter-lsp` v0.2.1) is a Go-based Elixir language server built by Remote.com for their 57,000-file monorepo — cold-indexes in ~11 seconds by parsing source text directly into SQLite rather than compiling the project. The article covers a 3-step VS Code setup (Homebrew binary → extension install → format-on-save config), a full rundown of its LSP capabilities (go-to-definition including Erlang, hover docs, completions, rename, unused-variable detection), honest caveats (no Dialyzer, no debugger, macro-heavy Ash Framework projects lose coverage, Intel Mac requires source build), and v0.7.0 highlights including Erlang support and a Claude Code plugin.

VS Code / JetBrains Plugin Pick
VS Code / JetBrains Plugin Pick02/06/2026, 01:29:11

Mago — the Rust-powered PHP linter and formatter that sets up in 5 minutes

Mago (v1.29.0) is a single Rust binary that replaces PHP-CS-Fixer, PHPStan, and PHP_CodeSniffer for PHP projects — formatting WordPress (7M lines) in 0.43 seconds vs PHP-CS-Fixer's 25.3 seconds. The official VS Code extension `Clearlyip.mago-vscode-extension` v0.9.5 connects via a persistent LSP server rather than spawning a CLI process on each save, enabling real-time diagnostics and format-on-save. Covers 4-step setup, before/after formatting demo, and honest caveats on the unstable LSP preview, analyzer false positives, and the lack of a PHP extension ecosystem.

VS Code / JetBrains Plugin Pick
VS Code / JetBrains Plugin Pick30/05/2026, 01:25:07

Run Swift tests in VS Code with coverage and debug in one right-click

The official Swift extension for VS Code (`swiftlang.swift-vscode` v2.16.5, 640,700+ installs, 5.0 rating) gives SPM project developers full language server support via SourceKit-LSP, LLDB-based debugging, and a Test Explorer with five execution modes — including run-with-coverage and run-until-failure. The article walks through prerequisites, a complete Package.swift + XCTest/Swift Testing code demo, the coverage instrumentation workflow, a `launch.json` debug config example, and an honest breakdown of the three hard limits: SPM-only (no `.xcodeproj`), Windows debugging bugs, and 12 open issues.