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Hi David!

This is a great question! I rely heavily on my code editor and it's extensions, or the ability to extend it myself. I work with VS Code (believe it or not, I was switching over before I took the job at Microsoft) and, like a lot of people, I use Prettier, which helps me keep consistent formatting without having to comb back through myself.

I also use snippets pretty heavily when I'm developing, because if it's code I write again and again, I can't tell you how much I love speeding this process up.

As you may know, I use codepen to demo small bits of code, but the sneaker hit of codepen for me is working in isolation. I have literally THOUSANDS of pens because I have worked on some really large codebases, and it's really important that I figure out what's causing an error. If I bring it into codepen to isolate, I can confirm it's just the bit of code I'm working on or if something else that's fishy in the system is at play.

I love CLI tools like Vue CLI, and especially Nuxt. Nuxt allows me to spin up the base of an entire application with server side rendering, routing, and I can even quickly make a Vuex store, all with one command. This has been one of the most productive development tools I've ever worked with, and I'm just so happy working with it :)

What about you?