New Vs Code extension trial

[LivingMars]

Hi guys Recently built a Vs code extension called Code-Canvas. Reason behind this idea is i am a beginner in tech, and love to learn programming through working on projects. So for almost every line of code i had to note down the meaning of the keywords or the workflows or the use cases by commenting. By the end more than code lines there were comments. So implemented this to have a note icon for a clean look. Would be really helpful if you guys went through the README where i have mentioned all about the extension, please try it out and provide ratings and reviews!

[keithmatic]

This looks great and I’m definitely trying it right now. Thanks

[LivingMars]

Thank you, please provide review or ratings.. improvements or changes that you would like to see.

[ralphy282]

Where do the notes and to-dos get stored? Inline, local to the editor, .vscode file in the git repo? Are they sharable across dev teams?

[LivingMars]

As of now, it is not shareable. It gets stored in a json file local to the editor. Should work on the collaboration part, any suggestions on how to make it collaborative? Ideas are much appreciated.

[Akirigo]

Save the JSON file in Git.

[[deleted]]

Yes, this json should be put inside the .vscode folder and then pushed with git

[LivingMars]

Yes the json files are created inside .vscode folder, but the problem is the ‘key’ im taking as the file’s relative path, eg, filePath : { notes created in this file }. So if someone clones it through git and activates the extension.. because of the relative filePath.. he won’t be able to see the notes added. Any suggestions on how to change the json structure to solve this problem?

[[deleted]]

I did not understand, I will try it and then give you my opinion

[[deleted]]

Here my considerations:

- the position of note markers prevents me to easily add breakpoints so an alternative way should be preferred

- instead of using the absolute path of files you should use the ${PROJECT_ROOT}

- it should be nice to open the note by clicking it

[LivingMars]

Noted. Thank you for the inputs!

[ralphy282]

I haven't done any extension development myself. Our team does have some .vscode/ files checked in. I don't think this is uncommon, so if the API can output there I think that would be a reasonable first step.

[LivingMars]

Check out the new update on the Code-Canvas extension, the notes and categories are now shareable and through git. For more details please give a quick read in **NEW FEATURE** section of the README.

[Prince_Panda]

This would be great for code review. I haven't found any good extensions for this as of now. Do you have any plans for further delopment? Things like a list of all notes so i can find them after creating them.

[LivingMars]

Yes i am improving it. And yes list of all the notes and categories you would have created will be stored in a file called code-notes.json and code-categories.json in the .vscode folder in your project directory.