Chapter 12: Overviewing VS Code Extensions

While Visual Studio Code (VS Code) is a fantastic multi-language editing platform, we often find ourselves wishing that it could do additional tasks. Wouldn't it be great if we could view and edit GitHub tickets directly in VS Code? I would love to be able to edit MarkDown and create blog articles. If only I could connect to GitLab and see the latest status of my Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipeline. Wish no more! All these things and more are available as extensions to VS Code, and if there isn't an extension already, you can write your own to fill that void.

In this chapter, we will discuss the following topics:

  • What are VS Code extensions?
  • VS Code in Visual Studio Marketplace ...

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