vscode-vsce VS publish-vscode-extension

Compare vscode-vsce vs publish-vscode-extension and see what are their differences.

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vscode-vsce publish-vscode-extension
3 3
752 192
4.0% -
8.5 6.8
11 days ago 25 days ago
TypeScript TypeScript
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later MIT License
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vscode-vsce

Posts with mentions or reviews of vscode-vsce. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-04-08.
  • GitHub Action You Need to Publish VS Code Extensions
    4 projects | dev.to | 8 Apr 2022
    Lastly we will package and publish our extension using the Visual Studio Code Extension Manager and a GitHub Action called HaaLeo/publish-vscode-extension. The advantage of having the packaging and publishing step separated is that we can attach the compiled .vsix file as an artifact to the workflow and offer it as download. Make sure to generate a token (named in the workflow as VSC_MKTP_PAT and OPEN_VSX_TOKEN) to allow GitHub to publish your extension.
  • I automated publishing my VSCode Extension
    2 projects | dev.to | 3 Oct 2021
    I'm using VSCE - VSCode Extension Manager package to build and deploy my project to the Marketplace.
  • Write a VS Code extension in JavaScript, not TypeScript ^
    7 projects | dev.to | 16 Jun 2021
    There is a CLI tool called vsce for packaging and publishing extensions. It's easy to use. This will create a vsix package that can be installed as an extension.

publish-vscode-extension

Posts with mentions or reviews of publish-vscode-extension. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-05-31.
  • VS Code or VS Codium - Which should I use?
    12 projects | dev.to | 31 May 2022
    I have written a number of extensions, and I use the publish-vscode-extension GitHub action to publish my extensions to both marketplaces.
  • GitHub Action You Need to Publish VS Code Extensions
    4 projects | dev.to | 8 Apr 2022
    Lastly we will package and publish our extension using the Visual Studio Code Extension Manager and a GitHub Action called HaaLeo/publish-vscode-extension. The advantage of having the packaging and publishing step separated is that we can attach the compiled .vsix file as an artifact to the workflow and offer it as download. Make sure to generate a token (named in the workflow as VSC_MKTP_PAT and OPEN_VSX_TOKEN) to allow GitHub to publish your extension.
  • Write a VS Code extension in JavaScript, not TypeScript ^
    7 projects | dev.to | 16 Jun 2021
    I use this github action to automate publishing of an extension to both marketplaces, publication is triggered when the main branch is updated. There a couple of other github actions for

What are some alternatives?

When comparing vscode-vsce and publish-vscode-extension you can also consider the following projects:

openvsx - An open-source registry for VS Code extensions

tabout - Tab out of quotes, brackets, etc for Visual Studio Code

vscode-extension-samples - Sample code illustrating the VS Code extension API.

vscode-git-graph - View a Git Graph of your repository in Visual Studio Code, and easily perform Git actions from the graph.

vscode-snippets-ranger - View and edit all of your snippets in one purty place! Yee-haw!!

flatpak-vscode - Integrate Flatpak with VSCode

vscode-marky-stats - Configurable statistics of your markdown document on your status bar.

publish-extensions - Scripts for publishing VS Code extensions to open-vsx.org

release-action - An action which manages a github release

vscode-marquee - 💡 The missing VS Code homescreen that helps you to stay organized with minimal context switches