Top 7 VSCode Extensions for Salesforce Developers

1. Salesforce Extension Pack

This extension pack includes tools for developing on the Salesforce platform in the lightweight, extensible VS Code editor. These tools provide features for working with development orgs (scratch orgs, sandboxes, and DE orgs), Apex, Aura components, and Visualforce.

2. Apex PMD

Allows you to run Apex Static Analysis directly in vscode on Apex, VisualForce & other XML metadata files.

3. Prettier – Code formatter

Prettier is an opinionated code formatter. It enforces a consistent style by parsing your code and re-printing it with its own rules that take the maximum line length into account, wrapping code when necessary.

4. ESLint

Integrates ESLint into VS Code. ESLint can find and fix problems in your JavaScript code.

5. GitLens

GitLens supercharges Git inside VS Code and unlocks untapped knowledge within each repository. It helps you to visualize code authorship at a glance via Git blame annotations and CodeLens, seamlessly navigate and explore Git repositories, gain valuable insights via rich visualizations and powerful comparison commands, and so much more.

6. Apex Log Analyser

An analyzer for Salesforce debug logs aimed at making performance analysis much easier and quicker. You may also find it generally useful for quickly understanding how your code is executing.

7. Salesforce Package.xml Generator Extension for VS Code

This extension provides a User Interface to choose metadata components for Package.xml file for development against sandboxes or DE orgs (Org Development Model with VS Code). This is similar to Eclipse Force.com IDE Add/Remove Metadata Components option.