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john-smilga/VS-CODE-SETUP

★ 607 · updated Mar 2021

A personal VS Code setup repo from a JavaScript/React instructor listing extensions and editor settings. It's a snapshot of one developer's environment from early 2021, not a maintained configuration framework.

- Includes a settings.json so you can copy-paste actual config, not just read about it

- Extension list is focused on a specific stack (React/Svelte/JS) rather than trying to cover everything

- Practical for beginners following along with John Smilga's courses who want a matching environment

- Last updated March 2021 — Bracket Pair Colorizer is now built into VS Code and the extension was deprecated, ES7 snippets extension has been superseded, so several recommendations are already stale

- No settings.json content in the README itself, just a file in the repo — you have to dig for what's actually configured

- Zero explanation of why these extensions were chosen or how to configure them beyond two-line descriptions

- 607 stars almost entirely from course students copying their instructor's setup, not independent signal of quality

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