Support 3rd party VSCode extensions

Any plans to bring VSCode extensions to stackblitz?

Having vim keyboard bindings would be great, as well as other extensions like vscode-styled-components for syntax highlighting of styled-components strings, prettier formatting, etc.

Currently codesandbox.io has Vim and Prettier support, but it seems like having VSCode extension support would open up a lot of functionality, but I’m sure some extensions could not be supported.

[EricSimons]

Would love to support VS Code extensions — this might be a difficult one for us to pull off though. VS Code is (surprisingly) tied heavily to running in Electron/locally, so even getting the VS Code Dark Plus theme running in StackBlitz required custom setup.

However, we’ve been kicking around the idea of creating our own separate plugin system that’s reasonably compatible with VS Code’s. This would allow folks to port over extensions with relatively few hiccups, and it would ensure that all plugins are optimized to run super fast in-browser.

Would love to hear thoughts on this!

[mmcintyre123]

Would love to support VS Code extensions — this might be a difficult one for us to pull off though. VS Code is (surprisingly) tied heavily to running in Electron/locally, so even getting the VS Code Dark Plus theme running in StackBlitz required custom setup.

However, we’ve been kicking around the idea of creating our own separate plugin system that’s reasonably compatible with VS Code’s. This would allow folks to port over extensions with relatively few hiccups, and it would ensure that all plugins are optimized to run super fast in-browser.

Would love to hear thoughts on this!

While that would certainly be a tremendous improvement, I can probably speak on behalf of many people (judging by comments I’ve read in various forums) that it would be even better to have a VSCode extension (perhaps this project presents a good starting point?) that allows you to open a stackblitz project in your local editor, and see the same instant updates in the browser. Perhaps this could be accomplished with something like VSCode’s LiveShare, allowing the existing browser editor to be connected to a local VSCode editor. This would eliminate the need to support extensions in browser, and would allow users to work from their existing dev environments, which to my mind is infinitely preferable to spending the hours it would take to come close to replicating my local dev setup in another place - only to have to make inevitable workflow adjustments anyway. That’s my two cents!