MongoDB has released a major update to its VS Code extension, now generally available, featuring an enhanced in-IDE data browsing experience. Key additions include a paginated tree view with prescriptive document titles (auto-detecting human-readable fields instead of showing raw _id hashes), contextual action menus for inserting, deleting, cloning, and editing documents without writing queries, and a default Shell syntax mode that eliminates the need to translate commands to EJSON. The goal is to reduce context switching by giving developers a full data management suite directly in their editor sidebar.
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