VSCode Tips: Effortless Word Replacement Tool for Efficiency

I currently need to rename a variable throughout my entire project to make it more descriptive and accurate. I confess, I'm not the best at naming variables initially.

This particular variable has been used extensively across different folders and files within the project. Manually renaming it everywhere would be incredibly time-consuming. Thankfully, I did some research and found a way to achieve this efficiently in Visual Studio Code (VS Code). Here are the steps involved:

The Search Sidebar will appear highlighting the variable references

As you can see I called this variable for more 200 times. Imagine, changing the variable name in the entire codebase one by one.

Below the "Search" input text box, another input text box will appear labeled "Replace" for history.

Now input your new variable name.

Replace All using these keyboard shortcuts and a window will pop.

Just like that!