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Show HN: I built a VS Code Theme Creator – easily make VS Code themes in browser

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Re: Show HN: I built a VS Code Theme Creator – easily make VS Code themes in browser

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Post by msoad »

This is cool! I really enjoyed playing around. Some feedback:

1. Do not ask for signup before making a theme. There is so much power in allowing users play around without friction. You will get signups from users that are interested.

2. Make the editor preview itself a selection tool for various colors and other items. That would make it a whole lot easier to use

3. Allow grouping of colors. Some colors are always set to the same value. Allow setting the colors individually too. But users often want harmony.

Re: Show HN: I built a VS Code Theme Creator – easily make VS Code themes in browser

#12

Post by abledon »

msoad wrote: post #11

This is cool! I really enjoyed playing around. Some feedback: 1. Do not ask for signup before making a theme. There is so much power in allowing users play around without friction. You will get signups from users that are interested. 2. Make the editor preview itself a selection tool for various colors and other items. That would make it a whole lot easier to use 3. Allow grouping of colors. Some colors are always se…

yeah, after looking around some demo themes, was about to make a theme, got blocked by signup and closed tab

Re: Show HN: I built a VS Code Theme Creator – easily make VS Code themes in browser

#13

Post by dblooman »

miketromba wrote: post #2

Hi HN, I built the VS Code Theme Studio after realizing how hard and annoying it is to create a theme the standard way. You have to tweak tons of hex color codes in a huge JSON file... yuck. Most of the time you don't even know which settings to edit, or how they actually affect the UI. I wanted to build a much more intuitive and user-friendly way of designing VS Code themes, so that anyone could design a beautiful,…

Can you remove sign up?

Re: Show HN: I built a VS Code Theme Creator – easily make VS Code themes in browser

#14

Post by borisandcrispin »

This is really cool and easy to use!

Recently I've been checking what can be customized in VS Code and my approach was to just check what was modified by the theme. This makes the whole process more intuitive as you can just tweak the settings and see how it would look like.

Re: Show HN: I built a VS Code Theme Creator – easily make VS Code themes in browser

#15

Post by miketromba »

css wrote: post #7

Both the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy links 404. Why does this require an account?

Oooof just pushed a fix for that. It's a lot easier to make a theme in multiple 'sittings' instead of all at once. Your themes get stored under your account so you can come back to them later. Also used for posting the themes in the 'hub'. Localstorage seemed too flakey for theme data storage... it would be a really bad experience to lose an hours worth of theme data.

Re: Show HN: I built a VS Code Theme Creator – easily make VS Code themes in browser

#16

Post by miketromba »

msoad wrote: post #11

This is cool! I really enjoyed playing around. Some feedback: 1. Do not ask for signup before making a theme. There is so much power in allowing users play around without friction. You will get signups from users that are interested. 2. Make the editor preview itself a selection tool for various colors and other items. That would make it a whole lot easier to use 3. Allow grouping of colors. Some colors are always se…

Thank you, these are great - I agree with all them. Going to add these to my list!

Re: Show HN: I built a VS Code Theme Creator – easily make VS Code themes in browser

#17

Post by miketromba »

city41 wrote: post #4
andrewnc wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This looks great :) I didn't create a theme because of the soft login lock, but it seems like a really great tool. As someone who spends FAR too much time on theming, this also might be a bit dangerous ;)

It'd be nice to let people create themes anonymously and only save them to localStorage, then require an account if they want to do more from there.

I considered this a little, but I want to optimize for a more robust set of features in the future that would require an account... E.g. eventually handling the submission to the marketplace for the user, etc. + I was worried about users potentially losing lots of work if LocalStorage gets wiped for some reason.

Re: Show HN: I built a VS Code Theme Creator – easily make VS Code themes in browser

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Post by miketromba »

dblooman wrote: post #13
miketromba wrote: post #2

Hi HN, I built the VS Code Theme Studio after realizing how hard and annoying it is to create a theme the standard way. You have to tweak tons of hex color codes in a huge JSON file... yuck. Most of the time you don't even know which settings to edit, or how they actually affect the UI. I wanted to build a much more intuitive and user-friendly way of designing VS Code themes, so that anyone could design a beautiful,…

Can you remove sign up?

This is a popular request, so I might implement this moving forward.

Re: Show HN: I built a VS Code Theme Creator – easily make VS Code themes in browser

#20

Post by miketromba »

k__ wrote: post #10

Awesome. I used such theme creators for WebStorm, back in the days, and I certainly missed them for VSCode. Nit: it would be cool if I could click on an element in the UI and it would open the config option on the left. Currently it requires me to search for an option.

Yeah this is a great idea, def going to look into this.
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