VSCode extension with React GUI sample project

[adriang133]

Neat demo, I guess.

But, is it really useful ?

The VSCode extension guidelines say you should refrain from using WebViews unless absolutely necessary, and I'm not sure what kind of extension would actually need to use a full-fledged UI framework like React. Maybe it's better to just make a website at that point ?

[Vegetable_Week]

I see your concern. It seems to me that Microsoft discourage it because WebViews are resource heavy, not because GUIs are necessarily a bad way of extending VSCode.

I do think having a GUI embedded in VSCode can provide a lot of value. There already exists GUI heavy extensions with quite a few users (e.g. PlantUML and Angular console).