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Top 23 TypeScript VSCode Projects
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Project mention: Self-hosted dev sandboxes with preview URLs (Docker, Go, no K8s) | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-06-03
I'm using https://coder.com for all my development containers. I've got mine hooked up to a k8s cluster, but anything that you can provision with Terraform can be used (e.g. docker containers).
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Project mention: Why We Stopped Using vLLM 0.6 for Local LLMs in Favor of Ollama 0.5 for Code Tasks | dev.to | 2026-04-28
The Continue VS Code extension (https://github.com/continuedev/continue) has native support for Ollama 0.5, enabling seamless code completion and chat directly in your IDE without any cloud dependencies. To set up Continue with Ollama, install the Continue extension from the VS Code marketplace, then add the following configuration to your VS Code settings.json file. This will configure Continue to use your local Ollama instance for code completion, with the custom codellama-custom model we created earlier. Unlike cloud-based LLM extensions, this setup has zero latency from network requests, no data privacy concerns (all processing happens locally), and works offline once models are pulled. Our team saw a 30% increase in developer productivity after switching to local Ollama + Continue, as developers no longer had to wait for cloud API responses or worry about proprietary code being sent to third-party servers. Continue also supports chat-based code generation, where you can ask the local Ollama model to explain a function, write tests, or refactor code, all without leaving VS Code. This integration took 5 minutes to set up per developer, and eliminated our team’s reliance on cloud-based code LLM tools entirely.
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kilocode
Kilo is the all-in-one agentic engineering platform. Build, ship, and iterate faster with the most popular open source coding agent.
Project mention: Ask HN: What is your (AI) dev tech stack / workflow? (June 2026) | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-06-05The simplest mainstream options for tools:
1) Claude Desktop which includes Claude Code for Anthropic: https://claude.com/product/claude-code (alternatively the terminal based version; either way get the subscription)
2) Codex for OpenAI: https://developers.openai.com/codex/app (same as above, subscription preferred instead of paying per token)
3) OpenCode for a variety of models: https://opencode.ai/ (they also have a subscription, but this in particular also makes it really easy to connect to OpenRouter)
4) KiloCode is essentially the above, but for VSC derived editors: https://kilo.ai/ (I personally liked RooCode more, but that got retired)
More niche tooling options:
1) Zed is pretty good, though I saw some issues with their LSP Edits and found that connecting them to OpenCode through ACP worked better, still a cool editor: https://zed.dev/
2) If you have to pay for tokens and can't get subscriptions, look at DeepSeek as a provider (V4 Pro with Max reasoning): https://api-docs.deepseek.com/quick_start/pricing
3) I'm also writing a launcher to make running Claude Code with 3rd party providers earlier, early days still: https://ccode.kronis.dev/
Note: for anyone on Windows, if you install the terminal versions of the tools (Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, ...), you probably want them inside of WSL so there's less confusion with file paths etc. that some models have.
In regards to actually using the tech:
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Project mention: How to build a reliable web application with Elm, GraphQL, PostGraphile and PostgreSQL | dev.to | 2025-06-22
The features will be very simple: visitors can see the list of images posted, and some editors will be able to add, modify, or remove images thanks of the GraphQL IDE named GraphiQL. I will explain more about GraphiQL later in this article.
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gitpod
The developer platform for on-demand cloud development environments to create software faster and more securely.
First, remote dev environments became table stakes. GitHub Codespaces, Gitpod, and self-hosted dev containers became how serious teams worked. Every engineer I know who ships to production now SSHs into a box they didn't provision, edits files with whatever editor is installed, and commits from a terminal. An IDE-bound agent requires you to also forward your IDE to the remote box, which most people don't bother doing. A terminal agent is already there.
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vscode-gitlens
Supercharge Git inside VS Code and unlock untapped knowledge within each repository — Visualize code authorship at a glance via Git blame annotations and CodeLens, seamlessly navigate and explore Git repositories, gain valuable insights via rich visualizations and powerful comparison commands, and so much more
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Not only that but many new editors straigh up ship vim mode now like Zed, Obsidian etc. The main vscode neovim plugin¹ is very big too with over 500k unique installs. Clearly VIM is not going away anytime soon.
1 - https://github.com/vscode-neovim/vscode-neovim
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vscode-live-server
Launch a development local Server with live reload feature for static & dynamic pages.
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yn
A highly extensible Markdown editor. Version control, AI Copilot, mind map, documents encryption, code snippet running, integrated terminal, chart embedding, HTML applets, Reveal.js, plug-in, and macro replacement.
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openvscode-server
Run upstream VS Code on a remote machine with access through a modern web browser from any device, anywhere.
Despite being made to allow an app to be built with web technologies, most Electron apps become quite coupled to Electron and Node.js. When people started building cloud IDEs where Electron didn't make sense and you could just view the frontend in your browser, they couldn't use VS Code because of this coupling. Eventually, thanks to projects like openvscode-server, which patched VS Code to run as a normal web app in a Docker container, VS Code took many of these changes upstream and began to decouple VS Code from Electron.
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I use a nice vscode extension called vscode-rest and I love it.
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themer
🎨 themer takes a set of colors and outputs themes for your apps (editors, terminals, wallpapers, and more).
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Project mention: Jules, our asynchronous coding agent, is now available for everyone | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-08-06
Can't even clone a repo with submodules in it
Submodule 'static/vscode-icons' (https://github.com/vscode-icons/vscode-icons.git) registered for path 'static/vscode-icons' Cloning into '/app/static/vscode-icons'... fatal: remote error: upload-pack: not our ref 2d4abd090bf67132d0946f8622d1252ecf1f8478 fatal: Fetched in submodule path 'static/vscode-icons', but it did not contain 2d4abd090bf67132d0946f8622d1252ecf1f8478. Direct fetching of that commit failed.
And it used up a task for the scaffold process.
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monaco-react
Monaco Editor for React - use the monaco-editor in any React application without needing to use webpack (or rollup/parcel/etc) configuration files / plugins
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codetour
VS Code extension that allows you to record and play back guided tours of codebases, directly within the editor.
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NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
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Index
What are some of the best open-source VSCode projects in TypeScript? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Code-Server | 77,765 |
| 2 | continue | 33,552 |
| 3 | github1s | 23,297 |
| 4 | kilocode | 19,800 |
| 5 | foam | 17,182 |
| 6 | graphiql | 16,833 |
| 7 | Vim | 15,152 |
| 8 | pretty-ts-errors | 14,074 |
| 9 | gitpod | 13,691 |
| 10 | vscode-gitlens | 9,827 |
| 11 | vscode-neovim | 7,682 |
| 12 | dendron | 7,422 |
| 13 | vscode-live-server | 6,835 |
| 14 | yn | 6,628 |
| 15 | openvscode-server | 6,043 |
| 16 | vscode-restclient | 6,008 |
| 17 | themer | 5,802 |
| 18 | vetur | 5,757 |
| 19 | vscode-icons | 5,074 |
| 20 | i18n-ally | 4,816 |
| 21 | monaco-react | 4,716 |
| 22 | codetour | 4,535 |
| 23 | vscode-go | 4,251 |
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