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My first VSCode extension playground
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My first VSCode extension playground

via Dev.to JavaScriptValiantsin Lutchanka1mo ago

What is it about? The idea of my first VSCode extension was inspired by weathr cli app from this project - https://github.com/Veirt/weathr . I know there are plenty of different extensions already on the market, but this one is just my playground to try to do something new 😄. I was planning to build it for a Github Copilot CLI challenge, but was late hehe, so I did it just for fan. The process of extension creation is quite simple, having all the AI power at your fingertips, you can do so in a couple of hours - it is just a matter of having an idea to implement. My colleague Copilot has done all the hard work, so I was just sitting in a sidecar giving advices 😂. So if you would like to create one by your own, the process is simple. First you will need actually to develop one. Working example repo can be found here My idea was to have a realtime weather app in a bottom panel along with the terminal and in a side panel where explorer tab of VSCode is which will look like this: Features I

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