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Near-Term Website Simplications (March 2023) #2728
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Remove "Errors" view and "Plugins" view from the TypeScript Playground
Does that imply removal of these tabs altogether? Or is it just making the tabs invisible to a newcomer by changing the settings defaults?
I've heard a few people ask about the
Errorstab - I think we'd be open to keeping that around.Plugins though, we're more skeptical of, and we wonder if using something like
https://vscode.devis a better mechanism for these use-cases. Out of curiosity, what are some plugins you currently use @Agapurnis?I'd definitely be a fan of keeping the
Errorstab around.Out of curiosity, what are some plugins you currently use @Agapurnis?
I don't seem to often find myself using them. A lot of the plugins seem to have too-niche of a purpose for me, or are tools to make the editor more on-par with a larger IDE. If I ever need the latter, I'll usually end up switching to something like StackBlitz.
I personally find the plugins to be an extremely useful part of the playground, and extensively use the link shortener, vim, and prettier plugins.
vscode.devis a great tool, but (afaik) there's no way to share links with it – especially in the context of the TS Discord, where the playground is the go-to way to share code.
The primary use-case for the website is to learn how to use TypeScript. We think there are some opportunities to simplify our pages to avoid overwhelming newcomers. Additionally, we have a lot of UI whose surface area translates to testing costs that often need to be repeated.
After discussing among Ryan Cavanaugh (@RyanCavanaugh), navya9singh, and others, we came to a list of near-term improvements we'd like to make. So in the next month or two, we'd like to make the following simplifications: