We’ll skip the “Run and debug” menu in here, as it’s not much useful right now for us.

The fifth icon in the activity bar brings us to extensions.

Extensions are a great feature of VS Code.

They can provide so much value that you’ll surely end up using tons of them.

I have lots of extensions installed.

You can disable an extension you install, and enable only when you need it.

You can also disable an extension for a specific workspace. Workspaces are basically ongoing project windows.

You might have a workspace for a web project and a workspace for a python project. Those will need different extensions.

There is a list of recommended extensions when you first open this tab, which include all the most popular tools.

Let’s install one extension I recommend you add, which is Duplicate action.

For some reason VS Code doesn’t have a quick way to “Duplicate” a file. This extension will add a menu item that shows up when you right-click a file.

Search “Duplicate action” and you’ll see the extension. Click Install to enable it!

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