RedVis README

RedVis is a Visual Studio Code extension designed to allow users to browse top posts on specified subreddits without having to leave VS Code.

Features

• Browse the top posts of specified subreddits without having to leave VS Code

• View details of specific post (selftext and author)

Planned

• Back button to return to post list view

• View comments on post

• Upvote/downvote posts and comments

• Leave comment in post thread

• Create posts

Requirements

RedVis relies on two npm packages

Npm packages

• path

• node-fetch

Known Issues

• [enhancement] Scrub user search for xss (#7)

• [bug] Searching for multiple subs appends new sub listing to bottom of current (#8)

Release Notes

Thank you to members of Hacklahoma for putting on the Hackathon during which I coded this extension!

Follow progress at the RedVis Trello Board

1.0.0

• Create RedVis tab and search subreddits to view top 25 posts

2.0.0

• Revised fetching to call Reddit api directly rather than use snoowrap (see here for documentation on Reddit JSON returns)