VS Code tricks to boost productivity

VS Code Tips — Emmet abbreviations

Indy Seh
2 min readOct 20, 2022
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Lately, I have been mentoring a couple of Junior Developers and realised how introducing VS Code shortcuts almost doubled their productvity. Here, I have listed some useful Visual Code capabilites that many new Web Developers might not be aware of.

Emmet Plugins

Visual Code supports Emmet snippets expansion; it is a plugin for text editors which greatly takes HTML & CSS workflow to the next level. This plugin uses Abbreviations, heart of the Emmet toolkit: these special expressions are parsed in runtime and transformed into structured code block.

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Useful Abbreviations

  • h1+p+button
  • nv>ul>li
  • nv>ul>li*4
  • div+div>header+footer
  • div.box$*3
  • a{google}
  • button{click}
  • div.box${Box $}*5

Conclusion

I hope, I added something new to your development belt.

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Indy Seh
Indy Seh

Written by Indy Seh

Python | Go | Javascript | Typescript | Frontend | Backend

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