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id: visual-studio-code-plugins
title: VSC Plugins
keywords:
  - VSC
  - Plugins
description: Typical plugins used in VSC for Solidity development
---

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## VSC Plugins

### Solidity

This plugin provides syntax highlighting, code completion, and other language-specific features for writing Solidity code in VSC.

[Solidity Plugin](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=JuanBlanco.solidity)

### Hardhat

This plugin adds a "Test Explorer" panel to VSC, which allows you to view and run the tests in your Solidity project.

[Hardhat Plugin](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=NomicFoundation.hardhat-solidity)

### Truffle

This plugin integrates Truffle, a development framework for Ethereum, into VSC. It provides features such as contract deployment, migration, and
testing, as well as access to the Truffle console and a local blockchain testnet.

[Truffle Plugin](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=trufflesuite-csi.truffle-vscode)