Themes are just one customization you can make. There are many more!

Go to Preferences ➤ Settings (also reachable via cmd ,) to see them:

Everything is highly configurable, and it’s sometimes hard to make sense of it all.

Some nice configuration options I set in my VS Code:

• Workbench › Side Bar: Location “right”
• Editor › Minimap: Enabled: false
• Explorer: Confirm Delete: false
• Explorer: Confirm Drag And Drop: false
• Files: Trim Trailing Whitespace: true
• Editor: Quick Suggestions Delay: 0

You can experiment and read about VS Code a lot. Everyone has different preferences.

This is also the place where you can change the editor font.

I like the DM Mono font. Fira Code is cool too. It’s free, and has some very nice programming ligatures, which transform common constructs like !== and => into nicer symbols.

Enable it by installing the font on your computer and then set the Editor: Font Family preference.

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