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Building a VSCode Extension: Part One

Corey O'Donnell on August 27, 2020

I have been looking for a fun side project to work on in my free time. Building projects is the best way to actually improve your skills as a devel...
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Mark Smith

Hi Corey - nice idea, I built something similar a few days ago, curious to see how your Vscode version turns out.

Here’s mine:

dev.to/mjgs/eleventy-blog-template...

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Corey O'Donnell

Awesome, I'll check it out.

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CodingCoop

Looking forward to following this! I been wanting to make an extension to show KintoHub related services running in the cloud within VSCode.

ZERO experience on VSCode extensions, so definitely looking forward to this series!

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Corey O'Donnell

I have zero experience with it also.

It's a learning experience for me. I hope that I help someone else by learning in public.

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Nepali Lab

Looks like a fun project. I've never seen someone build a VS Code extension. This is great.

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Corey O'Donnell

Yeah, I am pretty excited. I am hoping that sharing this journey might help someone else.

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KULDIP MOCHI

yeah, you are saying right, It helps us

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Michael Currin • Edited

Hi I recently wrote my first extension as well and so put together resources around what I learnt.

Here are some links to docs and sample repos. I also cover some more exporting and publishing

michaelcurrin.github.io/dev-cheats...

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Jens Genberg

I just had an idea to write my first VS Code extension based on my Github hackathon idea, so this is very good timing! :)

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Corey O'Donnell

Nice, hopefully everything I share can help you with your journey.

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omaro grant

This sounds awesome cant wait to see it. I never made an extension before so i'm pumped about this project.

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Corey O'Donnell

Awesome. I hope everything I share will help you!

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Jorawar Singh Nijjar

Looks like nice plan! Good Luck.

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Corey O'Donnell

Thank you!

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Devesh Lashkari

Great! Best of luck.

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Corey O'Donnell

Thank you! Will be a fun experience.

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TheOnlyBeardedBeast

Add beautifuld dnd from atlassian and you have it done in one day

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Corey O'Donnell

Thanks, I just looked into it and that package looks like a good fit.

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Harshana Serasinghe

Amazing. Looking forward for the next part of the tutorial. Good Luck :)