# My Top 10 VS Code Extensions
Since the start of 2021 I have been using VS code and now I have fully moved to VS Code for all of my development. Ocasionally using Brackets to view single files of code such as SQL scripts.

Before VS code I used Atom and so VS Codes easy to use and ever growing extensions marketplace was one of the main things that drew me to the editor. Compared to atoms narrow selection of extensions which all were not easy to install.

## Before we get into my top 10 extensions here are some of my favorite VS Code features

- Integrated terminal window.
- Integrated git and settings sync.
- Split view.
- User snippets, command pallete and the extensions store.

## So without further hesitation here are my top 10 extensions

- Emmet
- Prettier
- Atom one dark theme
- vscode-icons
- Language suggestions and predictions for relevent frameworks such as React, Angular, Vue.
- Tabine - Machine learning powered predictions
- Live Share
- Git Lens

*View of my vs code configuration*

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My Top 10 VS Code Extensions

# Welcome to the blog

## Who am I?
My name is Lee Walton I am a recent graduate of Northumbria University Newcastle, achieving a First Class degree in Computer Science with Web Development (Integrated Masters).

## What do I do?
I am currently a research assistant working at Northumbria University within a research team working on digital, tech and web tools for wellbeing.

During my time at university and in my current role I have been working with architectures based around a LAMP stack to generate all HTML server side. Since graduating I have been working to expand knowlege starting with Node.js, express, mongoose, json web tokens, React and Next.js. I have completed many courses and watched alot of tutorials to create applications and clones for my portfolio.

I am also intrested in exploring further frameworks such as React Native, Flutter/dart, GraphQL, TypeScript, Vue.js and Angular.

## What is the purpose of this blog?
The purpose of this blog is to log my journey as a web developer/software developer, to review new technologies I am exploring and to show my personal projects.