LnkLst

An opiniated git project and link manager for vscode workspaces

Features

Place a file .vscode/lnklst.json in your workspace folder following the schema described below.

The items can be a:

• git URL: The git repository will be opened from or cloned into the lnklst.baseFolder (configured in the settings)
• group: the subpath described in the group will be opened (makes sense if childrens of the group item are git URLs)
• parseable URI: will be opened by vscode.env.openExternal

Documentation

lnklist.json Schema

Schema described in doc/lnklst-schema.json or Basically an array of objects of the following type:

export interface LinkListTreeItem {
  icon?: string;
  name: string;
  group?: string;
  url?: string;
  children?: LinkListTreeItem[];
}

Property	Description
name	Name (as shown in Tree View)
icon	The id of the icon. The available icons are listed in https://code.visualstudio.com/api/references/icons-in-labels#icon-listing.
children	Array of LinkListTreeItem
url	Url that get's cloned or opened
group	path where git repository gets cloned to (passed to children)

An example is provided in doc/lnklst.json

Create Build

1. Update version in package.json
   1. run npm run release-next
2. vsce package

Requirements

• None yet

Extension Settings

This extension contributes the following settings:

• lnklst.baseFolder: Base folder where your sources get cloned to. Defaults to ~/src. Make sure #git.openAfterClone# is set appropriately.

Known Issues

• None yet

Open Tasks

• CI/CD Pipeline with publishing, workaround:
  1. vsce package
  2. install by *.vsix
• json editabibilty (edit and add items)

Release Notes

• see CHANGELOG.md