[2024]Best extensions for VS Code to develop in Java: Spring Boot.

Rigoberto Alcantar
4 min readJun 11, 2024

If you want to start developing with Java and Spring Boot but you are very used to using only Visual Studio Code or simply do not want to use a traditional IDE such as Eclipse or IntelliJ in this post you will learn about the extensions that will help you to have a suitable environment to develop web applications with Java and Spring Boot from your Visual Studio Code editor.

Extension Pack for Java:

This package of several extensions are the most used by the community and will help you to have a fast and effective development, the extensions that make up this package are:.

Language Support for Java(TM) by Red Hat:
Provides support for the Java language through Eclipse JDT Language Server which helps us to identify identify errors, auto-complete code, code snippets, format our code and support for Maven or Gradle.

Debugger for Java:
Debugger in a small size to test our applications from our code editor.
Based on Java Debug Server which relies on the previous extension Language Support for Java(TM) by Red Hat to provide integrated error correction and detection.

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Rigoberto Alcantar

Software Developer, me gusta desarrollar en Laravel, React, SQL