📅 2023-09-20 — Session: Enhanced VS Code with Primer CSS and Custom Styles
🕒 16:30–17:20
🏷️ Labels: Vs Code, CSS, Customization, Primer Css, SCSS
📂 Project: Dev
⭐ Priority: MEDIUM
Session Goal
The session aimed to enhance the user interface of Visual Studio Code by integrating Primer CSS and applying custom styles to Markdown previews.
Key Activities
- Code Analysis: Reviewed code for optimizing store placement to minimize distances, focusing on algorithmic efficiency and memoization techniques.
- Function Naming: Suggested improvements for function names to enhance code readability.
- Markdown Customization: Explored methods to customize Markdown cell styles in VS Code using themes and CSS.
- CSS Integration: Detailed steps to integrate Primer CSS into VS Code using the vscode_custom_css extension.
- Troubleshooting: Addressed SCSS compilation and import issues related to Primer CSS, providing solutions for dependency checks and import path modifications.
- Administrative Access: Provided guidance on running VS Code with administrative privileges and safely using sudo.
- Custom CSS Application: Configured custom CSS in elevated VS Code instances and addressed troubleshooting for custom styles in Markdown previews.
Achievements
- Successfully integrated Primer CSS into Visual Studio Code, enhancing the visual appearance through custom themes and styles.
- Resolved SCSS compilation and import issues, ensuring smooth integration of custom styles.
Pending Tasks
- Further exploration of function naming conventions for improved code clarity.
- Continuous monitoring and updating of custom styles to maintain compatibility with VS Code updates.