Benefits of using VS Code
- Easy debugging support for PHP, Ruby, Node and many more
- Easy to maintain the code and can add more than one project folder to the workspace.
- Many extensions help in the development.
- You can add your own code snippets, rather coding the same logic (like emmet)
- Can do pair programming and can share the servers.
- Remote code debugging is easy
Extensions I use :
- Bracket Pair Colorizer
- VS Live Share(pair programming/debugging)
- TODO Highlight
- Live Server
- DotENV(Environment variables for node applications)
Note: There are many extensions available, which might suit your development enviroment.