Tools - Do you know the best IDE for Angular and React?

When developing Angular or React, there are lots of choices for code editors. The best experience by far is to use [Visual Studio Code](https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads/).
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Many experienced teams are using Visual Studio for their C# backend and loving using Visual Studio Code for their Angular or React projects.

The recommended extension for Visual Studio Code is **Angular Essentials** from John Papa.

**Angular Essentials** is actually a meta-package that includes a list of great extensions for Angular Development – and this list may be updated in the future as more extensions become popular.

See <https://github.com/johnpapa/vscode-angular-essentials>.

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You can find more extensions at [Visual Studio | Marketplace](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/).

### Open in Visual Studio Code

This extension is for those times where you have a project open in **Visual Studio** and you want to be able to quickly open it in **Visual Studio Code**.


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**More:** [Why do others love VS Code?](https://stackshare.io/posts/why-developers-love-visual-studio-code)