Optimal VS Code settings

Going from zero to power-user in one quick copy-paste

I recently setup VS Code Settings Sync; and after spending a significant amount of time dealing with merge conflicts, I questioned and re-affirmed the value of many of these settings. To account for VS Code not configuring these to my liking by default, I share this configuration here with its justification.

"editor.autoClosingBrackets": "never",
"editor.autoClosingQuotes": "never",
"html.autoClosingTags": false,
"javascript.autoClosingTags": false…