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  5. React Preview vs VSCode DMs

React Preview vs VSCode DMs

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Overview

VSCode DMs
VSCode DMs
Stacks6
Followers9
Votes0
GitHub Stars91
Forks2
React Preview
React Preview
Stacks1
Followers4
Votes0

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VSCode DMs
VSCode DMs
React Preview
React Preview

Direct Messages is a simple way of messaging your developer friends and collaborating with them through VSCode. Level up your collaboration experience—create Group DMs, share code snippets, debug bugs (or add new features), and check your developer friends' activity status—all through your GitHub handle.

It gives you instant previews of React components and Storybook stories in your IDE without writing any extra code. It can handle CSS-in-JS libraries such as Styled Components and Emotion. It also supports CSS imports, including CSS Modules. You can also use SASS or LESS.

Quickly sign-in through your GitHub account to get started; The extension fetches all your mutual contacts from GitHub to whom you can message right away; Know when your friends are online by simply checking their status; Share screenshots of bugs, features, or anything you wish by pasting the image in the chatbox; Share code snippets to your most recent conversation in one click.
Exploring all components in your project; Automatically generated props for TypeScript and PropTypes; Quick and easy configuration of custom previews; Switching between related components in a click; First-class support for Component Story Format
Statistics
GitHub Stars
91
GitHub Stars
-
GitHub Forks
2
GitHub Forks
-
Stacks
6
Stacks
1
Followers
9
Followers
4
Votes
0
Votes
0
Integrations
GitHub
GitHub
Visual Studio Code
Visual Studio Code
Less
Less
IntelliJ IDEA
IntelliJ IDEA
Visual Studio Code
Visual Studio Code
WebStorm
WebStorm
Sass
Sass

What are some alternatives to VSCode DMs, React Preview?

Ant Design

Ant Design

An enterprise-class UI design language and React-based implementation. Graceful UI components out of the box, base on React Component. A npm + webpack + babel + dora + dva development framework.

Spacemacs

Spacemacs

Since version 0.101.0 and later Spacemacs totally abolishes the frontiers between Vim and Emacs. The user can now choose his/her preferred editing style and enjoy all the Spacemacs features. Even better, it is possible to dynamically switch between the two styles seamlessly which makes it possible for programmers with different styles to do seat pair programming using the same editor.

Angular Universal

Angular Universal

It executes on the server, generating static application pages that later get bootstrapped on the client. This means that the application generally renders more quickly, giving users a chance to view the application layout before it becomes fully interactive.

Angular Material

Angular Material

Sprint from Zero to App. Hit the ground running with comprehensive, modern UI components that work across the web, mobile and desktop. It allows to create material styled angular apps fast and easy.

ReSharper

ReSharper

It is a popular developer productivity extension for Microsoft Visual Studio. It automates most of what can be automated in your coding routines. It finds compiler errors, runtime errors, redundancies, and code smells right as you type, suggesting intelligent corrections for them.

PrimeReact

PrimeReact

PrimeReact is a rich set of open source UI Components for React.

SpaceVim

SpaceVim

SpaceVim is a Modular configuration, a bundle of custom settings and plugins, for Vim. It got inspired by spacemacs.

Vim-Plug

Vim-Plug

A minimalist Vim plugin manager.

Kite

Kite

Your editor and web browser don't know anything about each other, which is why you end up continuously switching between them. Kite bridges that gap, bringing an internet-connected programming experience right alongside your editor.

React Router

React Router

React Router is a complete routing solution designed specifically for React.js. It painlessly synchronizes the components of your application with the URL, with first-class support for nesting, transitions, and server side rendering.

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