Disclaimer: I’m a Frontend developer at Wix, that’s right. But this post written as a result of my experience as a “regular” user. …

In the previous post I talked about the purpose of the project (Make an HTML5 game controlled by “external controller”), the final product (An Arduino controller) and showed the first step (“control it from a different browser window using the same keyboard keys”). If you’re interested in the server code, you…

StackOverflow is one of (if not THE) the top common Q & A websites in the world. When you ask Google a code question, StackOverflow’s result will probably appear in the top 5 and when it comes to niche questions, it will probably be the top. According to Joel Spolsky…

In the last post, we talked about how to add a button to a panel’s top bar — either in the “more” menu or as icon button in the top bar itself. Also we learned how to use _onDidChangeTreeData.fire() in TreeDataProvider class to refresh the view. Like promised, the post…

In the last post, we talked about how to add an icon to the activity bar and “attach” a view to it. How to use TreeDataProvider to present File System like view to show the diffs like files in directories. Like promised, the post will includes an explanation about the…

In the last post, we talked about how to add a command to the commands palette so the user could interact with the plugin via commands. In our case, ask the compare process to start. We also talked about, how to open folder picker so the users could pick which folder(s)…

In the last post, we talked about the plugin, the requirements and the motivations. Like promised, the post will includes an explanation about the product challenge and how to solve it. The Challenge In order to let the users to compare folders, we need to allow them to run a command that…

This post meant to introduce the journey of the Visual Studio Code (“vscode”) plugin CompareFolders. The post is (will be) part of a series (🤞) and the only one who will not include any code examples and technical stuff. What’s that plugin (should) does anyway With that plugin you can compare 2 folders’ content just like…

Notifications are great. When an app wants to take its user attention, usually when a (long) process was done and maybe the user moved to another tab or even to another app, a notification will let the user to know about the process and maybe could take them back to…