Site Health Checker

A VS Code extension that monitors the health of a specified website and displays status in the editor.

Features

• Real-time website health monitoring
• Status indicator in the VS Code status bar
• Visual health status with color-coded indicators:
  • 🟢 Healthy (200-299 HTTP status)
  • 🟡 Unstable (non-500 errors or timeouts)
  • 🔴 Error (500+ errors or connection failures)
• Blinking status indicator for non-healthy states (warning and error conditions)
• Configurable URL setting
• Request timeout after 5 seconds

Installation

You can install this extension through the VS Code marketplace:

1. Open VS Code
2. Open the Extensions view (Ctrl+Shift+X or Cmd+Shift+X)
3. Search for "Site Health Checker"
4. Click Install

Alternatively, download the .vsix file and install manually:

code --install-extension site-health-checker-0.0.1.vsix

Usage

1. After installation, you'll see a "🌐 Checking..." indicator in the status bar
2. Set the URL to monitor in one of these ways:
   • Run the command "Set Website URL for Health Check" from the command palette (Ctrl+Shift+P or Cmd+Shift+P)
   • Set the siteHealth.url property in your VS Code settings

The extension will then check the website health every 30 seconds and update the status indicator.

Status Indicators

• 🟢 Healthy: Site is responding with a 2xx status code
• 🟡 Unstable: Site is responding with a non-500 error status or timing out (blinks to alert you)
• 🔴 Error: Site is responding with a 500+ error or has connection issues (blinks to alert you)
• 🔴 No URL set: No URL has been configured yet (blinks to alert you)

Requirements

• VS Code version 1.70.0 or higher

Extension Settings

This extension contributes the following settings:

• siteHealth.url: URL of the website to monitor

Development

Prerequisites

• Node.js
• npm

Setup

1. Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/khabouss/site-health-checker.git
cd site-health-checker

2. Install dependencies

npm install

3. Build the extension

npm run compile

4. Run the extension in debug mode

• Press F5 in VS Code

Building the extension

npm run vscode:prepublish

License

MIT License

Author

khabouss - GitHub