Visual Studio Code

While any text editor or IDE will work fine for development, VS Code is currently popular. So, here are some useful packages and practices for getting the most out of VS Code.

Extensions

When you first open the project in VS Code, you should get some recommendations of helpful extensions. These are configured in extensions.json

Snippets

Snippets for common boilerplate like React components and Jest tests are in .code-snippets files in .vscode

Particularly useful ones include comp for a new React component, page for a Next.js page, and test for a Jest test.

If you find yourself typing the same boilerplate a lot, it can be helpful to the team to add that as a new snippet!