Aliens Themes for Visual Studio Code

A VS Code theme pack with high-contrast dark coding, AnilCyborg light mode, and a new Apple-inspired Liquid Glass pair with layered translucent surfaces.

Features

• Aliens Dark: High-contrast black coding theme with neon syntax colors.
• AnilCyborg Light: A site-faithful light theme using the anilcyborg.com warm-paper surfaces, near-black typography, and indigo-violet-cyan signal palette. It uses JetBrains Mono for editor code when that font is installed.
• Aliens Liquid Glass Dark: Translucent graphite surfaces with the existing Aliens Dark syntax colors, so coding colours stay familiar.
• Aliens Liquid Glass Light: Bright glass-like panels, graphite text, and blue, indigo, green, and rose coding accents.
• Aliens BI Dark: Dark work-performance theme with soft 1px workbench boundaries for Explorer, Chat, Terminal, panels, tabs, and split editors.
• Aliens BI Dashboard: Activity Bar dashboard for project completion, delivery timeline, health, and member workload allocation.
• Icon Themes: Minimal Aliens Icons and custom AnilCyborg Icons.

The Liquid Glass variants are independently designed and Apple-inspired. They do not use Apple logos, assets, or proprietary interface code. VS Code themes can emulate layered glass using color and transparency, but cannot enable native operating-system blur.

Aliens BI Setup

1. Choose Preferences: Color Theme -> Aliens BI Dark.
2. The Aliens BI dashboard opens directly in the Activity Bar with demo data the first time the workspace opens.
3. Use Change in the dashboard header to choose a project name and workload such as WebSDK or WebApp. The selection is stored for the current workspace.
4. The first release displays deterministic local demo data. It does not contact bi.base.software or any external service.
5. When the real endpoint is ready, set Aliens BI: Data Mode to api and supply Aliens BI: API Endpoint. The expected response shape is documented in docs/aliens-bi-api-contract.md.

🚀 Installation

From VS Code Marketplace

1. Open the Extensions view in Visual Studio Code.
2. Search for Aliens Theme.
3. Click Install.

From Source (Local)

1. Clone the repository from GitHub.
2. Open the folder in Visual Studio Code.
3. Press F5 to launch the Extension Development Host.
4. In the host window, open the Command Palette and choose Preferences: Color Theme → Aliens Theme, AnilCyborg Light, Aliens Liquid Glass Dark, or Aliens Liquid Glass Light.
5. Optionally switch icons via Preferences: File Icon Theme → AnilCyborg Icons.

From a Packaged VSIX

1. Validate the manifest and extension files:

   npm run verify
   

2. Build the VSIX package:

   npm run package:vsix
   

3. Install the extension with the command:

   code --install-extension ./theme-Aliens-<version>.vsix
   

Publish Update to VS Code Marketplace

1. Create a Visual Studio Marketplace Personal Access Token with Manage access.
2. Login once with:

   npx @vscode/vsce login HimanshuNayak
   

3. Validate and publish the update:

   npm run publish:marketplace
   

4. If you prefer an environment variable instead of login:

   VSCE_PAT=<your-token> npm run publish:marketplace
   

VS Code shows a one-time security confirmation when an update first introduces executable extension code. This is expected for the Aliens BI dashboard. It is separate from package validation; npm run verify prevents invalid manifest, missing-file, and localization errors before publishing.

🔧 Usage

1. Open the Command Palette in Visual Studio Code.
2. Select Preferences → Color Theme → Aliens Theme, AnilCyborg Light, Aliens Liquid Glass Dark, or Aliens Liquid Glass Light.
3. Select Preferences → File Icon Theme → AnilCyborg Icons if you want the matching branded icons.
4. AnilCyborg defaults to JetBrains Mono when it is installed. To customize the editor font, add the following to your user settings:

   "editor.fontFamily": "Your Preferred Mono, monospace"
   

5. For additional color tweaks, use:

   "workbench.colorCustomizations": {
       // Add your customizations here
   }
   

📸 Screenshots

For a preview of the theme, visit the GitHub repository or check the extension preview assets.

🧩 Contributing

• Found a bug or have a suggestion? Open an issue on GitHub.
• Want to improve the theme? Feel free to submit a pull request.

⚖️ License

This extension is released under the MIT License. See LICENSE.md for details.

✨ Credits

• Theme created and maintained by Himanshu Nayak.
• GitHub: ihimanshunayak.