VSC-Home

A homecoming dashboard extension for Visual Studio Code

Introduction

Home is an extension for Visual Studio Code that allows you to design your own dashboard with built-in or custom React components. The following features are available:

• ➕ Create and name multiple layouts
• 🐲 Drag-n-drop grid
• 🎨 Colorable
• 🌟 Default widgets
  • List of recent opened folders/worspaces
  • Custom list of folders/workspaces
• 🎉 Your own React widgets
  
  

Installation

This extension can be found in the VS Code extension store.

You can also go to the releases to download and install the .vsix manually.
If you want to build this project from source, install lerna-lite globally with NPM and use Yarn to install the workspace dependencies.

How to add your own widget

You can start using the vsch-template:

1. Go to %appdata%/vsc-home/widgets (Windows)
   Go to /Users/<USER>/Library/Preferences/vsch-home/widgets (MacOS)
2. Clone the template and name the directory vsch_Demo:

git clone [email protected]:githrdw/vsch-template.git vsch_Demo

Note
Subdirectories in vsch-home/widgets MUST start with vsch_ because of how Webpack works.

3. Build and install the widget

cd vsch_Demo
yarn install
# or npm install
yarn build
# or npm build

4. Drag your new widget into the grid

All configurations are stored in AppData, feel free to have a look and customize!

Technical details

The application consists of three modules; a sidebar, grid (both web views) and the core.

Core

Causes the web views to be opened and handles requests to the VSCode api. Also sets up an EventBus for the webviews, so they are able to communicate with each other.

Used techniques: VSCode API, Typescript, Webpack

Grid

The most important element of this extension, namely providing a drag-n-drop grid on which widgets can be placed.

Used techniques: React, ChakraUI, React-grid-layout, Typescript, Webpack (with module-federation to dynamically load React components!)

Sidebar

Sidebar with Home icon as shortcut / escape hatch to the dashboard itself. Also contains a list of components to use that can be dragged to the grid

Used techniques: HTML, Sass, ES6, Rollup

Todo

• Recent projects widget
  • Option to duplicate / transform to static collection widget
• Access to VS Code API from external widget
• Automate the custom React component creation flow