Show HN: I built a web app to generate Emacs and Vim themes from VSCode theme (opens in new tab)

Note the first link is the official VSC repo, nothing in there should fail. Can you automate testing of every theme shipped with Code? That would seem to be a good first step.

It might also be helpful to expand your error messages more. Your audience is developers here. Even if I'm not a JSON genius I can still read an error message and try to fix things myself.

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Show HN: I built a web app to generate Emacs and Vim themes from VSCode theme (opens in new tab)

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4 pointspai3y ago5 comments

Screenshots: https://nice.github.io/themeforge/screenshots/

Website: https://nice.github.io/themeforge

Source: https://github.com/nice/themeforge

Written in Vanilla JS, generation happens entirely in browser.

Automatically adds some default faces for few Emacs packages.

Vim version also comes with 256 color support for terminals.

Feedback is much appreciated. Thanks

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suprjami3y ago

I've tried three different themes, your website says the JSON is invalid for every one.

- Official Solarized Dark: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/blob/main/extensions/the...

- Better Solarized Dark: https://github.com/edheltzel/vscode-better-solarized/blob/ma...

- This one: https://github.com/braver/vscode-solarized/blob/master/theme...

paiOP3y ago

Both first and second links contained comments in JSON, which is invalid.

I have now added fix to strip the comments, it should work now.

The last link does not have bare minimum requirement of a background color, see FAQ point 4: https://nice.github.io/themeforge/faq/#happy-little-accident...

Thanks for reporting.

suprjami3y ago

Cool, thanks for the quick response!

Note the first link is the official VSC repo, nothing in there should fail. Can you automate testing of every theme shipped with Code? That would seem to be a good first step.

It might also be helpful to expand your error messages more. Your audience is developers here. Even if I'm not a JSON genius I can still read an error message and try to fix things myself.

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