Open With Visual Studio Code 🚀

FireFox plugin and connector to open any GitHub repository directly from the browser

Note: The application is in it's early stages and may be highly unstable. Currently we only support Linux.

This repository contains two components of the application

• A native connector app
• FireFox AddOn

PreRequisites 🔼

• Latest version of FireFox
• Latest version of Node.js and NPM
• Git installed and configured
• GitHub account and your local machine is setup with SSH keys to your GitHub account

Installation 📦

1. Install the connector to your machine

npm i -g open-with-vscode

2. Install the FireFox AddOn to your browser

After installing both the Connector and the addon, simply go to any repository on GitHub, click on clone or download, you will be able to see the Open with VSCode button.

By Default, the connector clones the repositories to ~/github-projects directory within your system. Once the repository is already cloned, you can simply use the same button to open the repository using VSCode without any cloning.

Setting up the project for development 💻

Make sure you have the following requirements installed/setup in your system

• Latest version of FireFox
• Latest version of Node.js and NPM
• Git installed and configured
• GitHub account and your local machine is setup with SSH keys to your GitHub account

Clone the project to your local machine

git clone https://github.com/haxzie/open-with-vscode

Install the connector

cd into packages/connector and execute the following command to install the connector globally

npm link

For development

The connector will automatically install the necessary native manifest to .mozilla/native-messaging-hosts in your home directory. If you want to run the connector from the source, edit the .mozilla/native-messaging-hosts/open_with_vscode.json file and add the following contents by replacing the path property with the index.js file of the connector.

For Linux/Debian System

Copy the following JSON file to ~/.mozilla/native-messaging-hosts/open_with_vscode.json

{
    "name": "open_with_vscode",
    "description": "Host for executing git commads",
    "path": "<PATH to the index.js file of the connector>",
    "type": "stdio",
    "allowed_extensions": ["open-with-vscode@haxzie.com"],
}

For MacOS System

Copy the above JSON file to ~/Library/Application Support/Mozilla/NativeMessagingHosts/<name>.json

Install the dependencies for the plugin

cd into the packages/plugin directory and execute the following command.

npm install

Bundling the plugin

npm run build

Run the plugin on the browser

Use the following command to spin up an instance of FireFox with the plugin installed temporarily.

npm start

Or, if you want to manually install the plugin. Open your browser, and on the addressbar goto debugging menu, or simply type about:debugging#/runtime/this-firefox in your address bar.

Click on Load Temporary Extension, Browse the plugin directory of the project, select dist/content-script.js. This will temporarily install the AddOn to your browser. For logs, click on the inspect button to open the console fro the background-scripts of the plugin.