GifLens supercharges the GIF capabilities built into Visual Studio Code. It helps you to visualize GIFs at a glance using GIFLENS tags and code lens, seamlessly navigate and explore Gif repositories, gain valuable insights via powerful GIFs, and so much more.
Features
Visualize GIFLENS tags just by hovering them in your code.
Search for GIFs using the giflens command, or the left side panel.
Insert GIFs directly from your search history.
Add GIFs to your favorites.
Requirements
Just install giflens in the VS Code extension panel.
Extension Settings
Coming soon.
Debugging / Testing the extension locally
To run the extension locally, clone the repo, then just run the project in the debugging tab, it should be automatically recognized by VS Code.
VS Code will open another editor where you can test inserting and previewing Gifs.
Known Issues
Release Notes
1.0.0
hover a GIFLENS tag to visualize a gif inside your code editor
VS Code command to search a gif and inserting it when clicking on the preview
Supported languages :
bat scripts
clojure
coffeescript
C
C++
C#
CSS
Dockerfile
F#
Go
Groovy
HTML
Java
JavaScript
JSX
LESS
LUA
Makefile
Markdown
Objective C
Objective C++
Perl
PHP
Powershell scripts
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
SASS / SCSS
SQL
Swift
TypeScript
TSX
Visual Basic
Yaml
Thank you
The VS Code team for building an awesome open source IDE 🙏
The Gitlens team who helped us finding a name for this extension. Love your product too ❤️
The Giphy team for their great api and endless database of amazing GIFs 😎
