Code Garden Veyra

Your coding grows a garden.

Code Garden puts a little garden in VS Code that grows while you work. Every minute of coding helps your plants grow, saving waters them, fixing your last error brings butterflies, and every commit makes a flower burst into bloom. Code a few days in a row and rare plants unlock. Free, offline, and drawn from scratch. By the makers of Veyra Studio.

• 🌱 It grows while you code: seed, sprout, leaves, bud and bloom. A new seed sprouts every 20 minutes of coding.
• 💧 Saving waters it: watered soil grows plants at full speed. Leave it for a day and the soil dries and the plants droop, but nothing ever dies. One save and it rains.
• 🦋 Fix the last error, get butterflies: clear all your errors and butterflies flutter in, and every plant gets a boost.
• 🌸 Commit, and something blooms: each commit makes your most grown plant burst into flower.
• 🔥 Streaks unlock rare plants: nine species to collect, from the daisy to the golden Veyra Bloom.
• 🌙 Day and night follow your clock: sunrise, clouds and bees by day; stars, fireflies and glowing mushrooms at night.
• 📸 Share it: save a picture of your garden with your streak, ready for X, LinkedIn or your team chat.

At night

Fix the last error, and the butterflies come

Collect all nine

When your garden is full (12 plants), the oldest flower that has been in bloom for a while is pressed into your collection to make room for a new seed. Show My Collection lists every species, what you've unlocked and how many you've pressed.

New plants are a surprise, but once a species is unlocked you can pick it: Choose the Next Seed…

Share your garden

Save a Snapshot to Share… (the camera button on the view) saves a picture of your garden with your streak and collection underneath.

Where to find it

• In the Explorer: the Code Garden view at the bottom of the Explorer. Drag it up for more room.
• In a bigger panel: ⋯ → Open in a Bigger Panel.
• In the status bar: 🔥 your streak and ❤ the flowers in bloom. Hover for the details, click to open the garden.
• Hover over a plant to see its name, its stage and how close it is to blooming.

Commands

Settings

How it counts

• A coding minute is a minute in which you typed in a file while VS Code was focused. Reading and idle time don't count, and neither does typing in the terminal or Output.
• Saves count once every couple of seconds at most, so Save All or auto-save don't flood the garden.
• Fixes count when the number of errors drops to zero.
• Commits come from VS Code's built-in Git extension. If Git is turned off, the garden still grows; you just miss the commit blooms.
• The streak counts calendar days (in your time zone) with at least one coding minute.

Private by design

Code Garden never reads your code and never sends anything anywhere. It only counts minutes, saves, errors and commits. Your garden is kept in VS Code's own storage and follows you between machines with Settings Sync.

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