Editing shaders in Visual studio

Is there a prefered way to set Visual studio up for writing shaders?

I really like visual studio but when writing shaders most of the fuctionality seems inactive. I've come across a pluging that seems to adress this.

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=MarcinODev.ShaderUnitySupport

Is this what people use or is there a better way?