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Top 23 VSCode Open-Source Projects
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I don't think you can do anything serious locally.
IMO, the best option is hosting a VS Code server [0] on a linux desktop and using Tailscale to connect to it via the browser. At that point you have a real compute environment and a pretty usable IDE.
But the screen and keyboard were too small so I gave it up.
[0] https://github.com/coder/code-server
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Project mention: So, you want to set up a Monaco editor with a language server | dev.to | 2024-10-19
Let's start with the most simple Monaco setup. I will use vanilla TS with Vite and Bun as package manager, so I hope it will be simple to extrapolate into different frameworks. You can also find similar example written with React in the official repo.
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With the advent of people moving away from serverless and pushing more towards self-hosted solutions around VPS from provided like Hetzner and using deployment tools like Coolify , I’ve been wanting to have a cool monitoring app which not only monitor uptime but also disk space, CPU pressure, memory pressure, networking and more and throw alerts when something looks outside of the allowable thresholds.
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NvChad
Blazing fast Neovim framework providing solid defaults and a beautiful UI, enhancing your neovim experience.
The default mappings are defined here.
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continue
⏩ Continue is the leading open-source AI code assistant. You can connect any models and any context to build custom autocomplete and chat experiences inside VS Code and JetBrains
Project mention: tabby VS continue - a user suggested alternative | libhunt.com/r/tabby | 2024-10-03 -
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Hashnode API is well-documented. Also, it comes with a GraphiQL playground. You can use the playground to explore the API and test your queries.
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Project mention: Zettlr: Note-Taking and Publishing with Markdown | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-08-22
I just use Foam - https://github.com/foambubble/foam
As a Visual Studio Code extension, it runs everywhere (except some mobile setups), is very fast, and provides me with the ability to tack on more features via other extensions. I set up a “Notes” profile with everything I need, and switch to that for a couple of workspaces.
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It’s not about stack versus tree; it’s about the granularity of changes and what causes actions to be pushed to the undo stack (where there’s a pretty fundamental difference between modal and non-modal editors), and the fact that I suppose VS Code just doesn’t let extensions directly manipulate the undo stack in the way required.
Look through https://github.com/VSCodeVim/Vim/issues?q=undo, there’s a lot. VSCodeVim tries to make it behave more like Vim, and because it’s independent of the native undo stack, it’s frequently a miserable experience. Pretty sure I disabled it, when I tried using VS Code for a short while and with Vim mode.
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Project mention: Show HN: A tool to visualise Zod validation errors | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-10-01
I love it!
Zod is such a great tool but its errors can be a bit hard to parse.
Reminds me a lot of https://github.com/yoavbls/pretty-ts-errors
Disclaimer: I work with OP
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gitpod
The developer platform for on-demand cloud development environments to create software faster and more securely.
Project mention: How do you manage remote dev workstations in the cloud? | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-12-27Gitpod (https://www.gitpod.io) is a great option here. It aims to remove the ops burden, provide a great developer experience and give you tools to manage your spend (eg automatic timeouts, suspend/resume, standardized creation of environments).
Full disclosure: I’m one of Gitpod’s co-founders.
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devpod
Codespaces but open-source, client-only and unopinionated: Works with any IDE and lets you use any cloud, kubernetes or just localhost docker.
Project mention: Snyk security researcher deploys malicious NPM packages targeting Cursor.com | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-01-13Devcontainers[1] are the new incarnation of this pattern. We use them at work and they are a dream for onboarding new developers. The only downside is the VSCode lock-in but if that's a concern there's always DevPod[2].
[1] https://containers.dev/
[2] https://devpod.sh/
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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
Github: Gitlens Marketplace: Gitlens
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Project mention: Ask HN: How have you integrated LLMs in your development workflow? | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-09-29
The competition in AI editors is a bit silly at this moment. Everyone and his dog are "building" an AI assisted editor now by duct taping Ollama onto VSCode. I don't like my data being sent to untrusted parties, so I cannot evaluate most of these. On top of that, the things keep evolving as well, and editors that I dismissed a few months ago, are now all of a sudden turning into amazing productivity boosters, thanks to developments in both models as well as in editor tricks.
My money is on Cursor [1], which does not stop to amaze me, and seems to get a lot of traction. The integration is very clever, and it is scary how it figures out what I intend to do. Then again, I'm probably doing mundane tasks most of the time. For the few bright moments in my day I tend to use ChatGPT, because most of my real problems are in application domains, not in code.
I am not a firm believer in forking large open source projects, because it will take a lot of effort to keep up with future diversions. This makes me a bit wary of projects such as Cursor and Void [2]. Somebody needs deep pockets to sustainably surpass the popularity of VSCode. To point out just one problem with forking: VSCode works fine in Ubuntu, but Cursor does not work out of the box in Ubuntu. Having to disable the sandbox is a show-stopper for most.
In that respect, the extensions might be a safer bet, and I think Sourcegraph's Cody and Continue are making the largest waves there. Hard to tell with so many waves.
[1] https://www.cursor.com/
[2] https://voideditor.com/
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coder
Coder provisions software development environments via Terraform on Linux, macOS, Windows, X86, ARM, and of course, Kubernetes.
Project mention: Coder: Seamless Remote Dev Environments via Terraform | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-08-08 -
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nb
CLI and local web plain text note‑taking, bookmarking, and archiving with linking, tagging, filtering, search, Git versioning & syncing, Pandoc conversion, + more, in a single portable script.
Project mention: Nb – note taking and archiving on the command line | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-02-03 -
There's a vscode extension that embeds NeoVim and just uses VSCode UI as a front end to delegate key presses to:
https://github.com/vscode-neovim/vscode-neovim
This yields a better experience than the old half baked VSCode vim emulation.
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? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Code-Server | 69,268 |
| 2 | Monaco Editor | 41,131 |
| 3 | coolify | 36,350 |
| 4 | vscodium | 26,029 |
| 5 | awesome-vscode | 25,651 |
| 6 | NvChad | 25,358 |
| 7 | github1s | 22,950 |
| 8 | continue | 21,426 |
| 9 | LunarVim | 18,551 |
| 10 | graphiql | 16,196 |
| 11 | foam | 15,620 |
| 12 | Vim | 14,134 |
| 13 | pretty-ts-errors | 13,617 |
| 14 | git-history | 13,576 |
| 15 | gitpod | 13,055 |
| 16 | devpod | 10,211 |
| 17 | vscode-gitlens | 9,096 |
| 18 | void | 8,937 |
| 19 | coder | 8,773 |
| 20 | dendron | 6,835 |
| 21 | polacode | 6,821 |
| 22 | nb | 6,803 |
| 23 | vscode-neovim | 6,508 |
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