The 12 Essential Extension For Flutter Developers

Gbolahan
3 min readSep 18, 2021

Flutter SDK is Google’s UI toolkit for crafting beautiful, natively compiled applications for mobile, web, and desktop from a single codebase. With Flutter users growing in an exponential manner , so as the extension to use, today I will show you 12 must have extensions. They are

  1. Flutter — This VS Code extension adds support for effectively editing, refactoring, running, and reloading Flutter mobile apps, as well as support for the Dart programming language.

2. Dart — Dart Code extends VS Code with support for the Dart programming language, and provides tools for effectively editing, refactoring, running, and reloading Flutter mobile apps.

3. Awesome Flutter Snippets — Awesome Flutter Snippets is a collection of commonly used Flutter classes and methods. It increases your speed of development by eliminating most of the boilerplate code associated with creating a widget.

4. Auto Import — Automatically finds, parses and provides code actions and code completion for all available imports.

5. Pubspec Assist — Pubspec Assist is a Visual Studio Code extension that allows you to easily add dependencies to your Dart and Flutter project’s pubspec.yaml , all without leaving your editor.

6. Better Comments — The Better Comments extension will help you create more human-friendly comments in your code.

7. Dart Data Class Generator — Create dart data classes easily, fast and without writing boilerplate or running code generation.

8. Bracket Pair Colorizer — This extension allows matching brackets to be identified with colors.

9. Material Icon Theme — an extension to get the Material Design icons into your VS Code.✔

10. Error lens — diagnostic features by making diagnostics stand out more prominently, highlighting the entire line wherever a diagnostic is generated by the language and also prints the message inline.

11. Image Preview — This extension simply shows image preview in the editor’s gutter and on hover. Extremely useful to check if we haven’t made any typo in the image’s path.

12. Gradle Language Support — An extension to provide Gradle language support for Visual Studio Code, including advanced functionalities like Syntax Highlighting, Keyword Auto-completion Proposals and Duplication Validation.

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Gbolahan

I'm a Mobile Developer (Flutter) , Interested In science and how it's suppose to help.