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BC devs: stop repeating yourself.

BC devs: stop repeating yourself.

posted Originally published at learnbeyondbc.com 1 min read

New teammate joins. “What VS Code extensions do I need?” You list them. They miss some. Things break. You troubleshoot.

extensions.json fixes this.

✅ Auto-installs extensions
✅ Keeps setups identical
✅ 20+ essential tools explained
✅ Translation tools for multilingual projects
✅ Full walkthrough with working code

Full guide here: https://learnbeyondbc.com/blogs/extension-json-al-configuration-file-bc-developers

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Nice touch highlighting how often teams repeat the same setup issues, this made the extensions.json approach feel way more practical. Curious how many teams actually use it consistently once it’s introduced.

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@[Muzzamil Abbas] Basically, you can add this to your repo then once a team member downloads it, then they open up the project. It automatically suggest whatever defined in that extension.json

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