vscode-webview-tools

Miscellaneous tools for building things in VS Code webviews.

npm install --save vscode-webview-tools

Table of Contents

• API
  • Colors
    • parseColors(): { [key in Color]: string }
    • observeColors(callback: (colors: { [key in Color]: string }) => void): () => void
  • Theme
    • getTheme(): Theme
    • observeTheme(callback: (theme: Theme) => void): () => void

API

Colors

An enumeration of theme variables (colors, mostly) exposed by VS Code.

export const enum Colors {
  TabActiveBackground = 'tab-activeBackground',
  StatusBarBorder = 'statusBar-border',
  // 400 more, or so...

parseColors(): { [key in Color]: string }

Gets the map of colors variables to what they're set to in the webview. For example, you can make a custom input validation box-appearing thing:

import { parseColors } from 'vscode-webview-tools';
 
const colors = parseColors();
 
const MyErrorMessage = () => (
  <div
    style={{
      background: colors[Color.InputValidationErrorBackground],
      border: `1px solid ${colors[Color.InputValidationErrorBorder]}`,
      color: colors[Color.InputValidationErrorForeground],
    }}
  >
    Your input is invalid!
  </div>
);

observeColors(callback: (colors: { [key in Color]: string }) => void): () => void

Watches for changes to the colors and fires a callback when initially invoked and whenever the colors change. It returns a function that can be used to stop listening for color changes.

const stopListening = observeColors((colors) => {
  console.log('The editor text color is now', colors[Color.EditorForeground]);
});
 
setTimeout(stopListening, 5000);

You can easily wrap this into a React/Preact hook, for example:

import { Color, useColors } from 'vscode-webview-tools';
import { useState, useEffect } from 'preact/hooks';
 
const useColors = () => {
  const [colors, setColors] = useState<{ [key: string]: string }>({});
  useEffect(() => observeColors(setColors), []);
  return colors;
};
 
const SomeText = () => {
  const colors = useColors();
  return (
    <span style={{ color: colors[Color.EditorForeground] }}>
      This will always appear the same color as what's in the editor
    </span>
  );
};

Theme

The general VS Code theme type, exported as an enum.

export const enum Theme {
  Light = 'vscode-light',
  Dark = 'vscode-dark',
  HighContrast = 'vscode-high-contrast',
}

getTheme(): Theme

Gets the current theme.

import { getTheme, Theme } from 'vscode-webview-tools';
 
const SomeText = () => (
  <span style={{ color: getTheme() === Theme.Light ? 'white' : 'black' }}>Hi!</span>
);

observeTheme(callback: (theme: Theme) => void): () => void

Functions identically to observeColors, but for the theme. Can be wrapped in a hook the same way:

import { Theme, useTheme } from 'vscode-webview-tools';
import { useState, useEffect } from 'preact/hooks';
 
const useTheme = () => {
  const [theme, setTheme] = useState<{ [key: string]: string }>({});
  useEffect(() => observeTheme(setTheme), []);
  return theme;
};
 
const SomeText = () => {
  const theme = useTheme();
  return <span style={{ color: getTheme() === Theme.Light ? 'white' : 'black' }}>Hi!</span>;
};