Development

Locally running and testing your custom GitHub Action

July 16, 2024

When developing a custom GitHub Action, you should test and run it locally before pushing it to your repository. Initially, I created a script that allowed me to run it locally, but over the weekend, I found a better way by using the @github/local-action command-line tool. Show image GitHub local-action debugger In this post, I will show you how to use the @github/local-action command-line tool to test your custom GitHub Action locally.

It is Demo Time; how to make your live code demos smoother

December 13, 2023

I have had many sessions at conferences over the years. One thing I always liked to do is perform live demos. Although I know things could fail, it is also fun to show the audience how things work. Those live coding demos take a lot of preparation to ensure everything goes smoothly.

Using Vite for bundling your Visual Studio Code extension

October 18, 2023

important The CJS build of Vite’s Node API is no longer supported and will be removed in version 6. As Visual Studio Code extensions do not support ESM, my recommendation is use an alternative bundler such as webpack, tsup, or esbuild instead of Vite. A couple of weeks ago, I started looking into the possibility of retrieving the Content Collections from Astro and generating content-types for Front Matter CMS.

Things to know when using custom icons for Visual Studio Code commands

October 6, 2023

You can specify an icon when adding commands to your Visual Studio Code extension. These icons are rendered when you register the commands, such as the explorer title bar, document title bar, and more. info More info on registering command can be found in the VSCode documentation. You have three options for specifying the icon:

Localization of Webviews in Visual Studio Code Extensions

July 6, 2023

In the previous post, I showed how to localize the extension commands/settings and code. In this post, I want to show how to localize the webviews in Visual Studio Code extensions, as this is a bit more complicated and not yet documented. First, webviews allow you to create fully customizable views for your extensions.

Localization of Visual Studio Code Extensions

July 5, 2023

Welcome to another blog post where we explore the world of Visual Studio Code extensions! In this article, I will delve into localizing your extensions. Localization allows you to make your extension accessible to users around the globe by providing translations in different languages. As some things were unclear to me when I wanted to start localizing one of my extensions, I wrote this article to help others in the same situation.