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cloudformation explorer

cloudformation explorer

John Brown

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Visualise a cloudformation file with an explorer
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Launch VS Code Quick Open (Ctrl+P), paste the following command, and press enter.
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Cloudformation Explorer README

Simplify your AWS CloudFormation workflow with an easy-to-use resource explorer. Quickly view and navigate your resources grouped by comment regions, making it effortless to understand your cloud infrastructure at a glance.

Key Features

📂 Automatically group CloudFormation resources into collapsible regions 🔍 Improve template readability and navigation 🚀 Quickly fold and unfold sections of your template 🧭 Clear overview of your template structure 💡 Streamlined CloudFormation development experience

Cloudformation Navigation

As long as your file begins with AWSTemplateFormatVersion it will be included in the explorer

Cloudformation resoruce grouping

By using the following comment style you can group areas together (similar to C# regions)

### region: Nice title ###

... Cloudformation resources

### endregion

Demo of My VSCode Extension

See the explorer in action! Explorer View

See how resources can be grouped together easily Analyser View

Known Issues

Working on VSCode engine support as we speak! Adding support for JSON template declarations

Release Notes

0.0.4

Expanding documentation

0.0.3

Better readme

0.0.2

Extra tests

0.0.1

Initial release of cloudformation explorer.

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