I made good experiences with VScode + LaTeX Workshop extension. Here is an example project that should be fully set up.

https://github.com/uibk-dps-teaching/DPS-LaTeX

However, I also do want to state that I ditched LaTeX completely by now since there is just too much headache involved. I am sticking with Markdown and HTML+CSS for the most part; weasyprint is really helpful when I have to generate PDFs.