Environ Inspector is a developer-focused VS Code extension that gives you deep visibility into your local system environment.

It helps you:

• ✔ Inspect system information
• ✔ View installed tool versions
• ✔ Explore environment variables
• ✔ Create environment snapshots
• ✔ Compare snapshots to detect configuration drift
• ✔ View a sidebar tree view with live details

Perfect for debugging environment issues, onboarding new machines, validating dev setups, or sharing reproducible configurations across teams.

📸 Screenshots :

✨ Features

🔧 1. System Information Panel

Displays key OS-level details:

• Platform & distro
• Kernel version
• Architecture
• CPU model & count
• Total & free memory
• Hostname

📦 2. Tool Version Detection

Scans for commonly installed tools on Windows/macOS/Linux:

• Node, npm, Python, pip
• Java, Go, Rust, .NET
• Git, Docker, kubectl
• And many more

All presented in a clean searchable table.

🌍 3. Environment Variables Viewer

List all environment variables in a searchable grid.

Useful for debugging PATH issues, API keys, and environment mismatches.

🧩 4. Snapshot Creation

Create an environment snapshot containing:

• System info
• Installed tool versions
• Environment variables

Saved as a structured JSON file.

🔍 5. Snapshot Comparison (Diff Viewer)

Compare two snapshots to find:

• Added environment variables
• Removed variables
• Changed values
• Version differences
• System info drift

Differences are color-coded for fast visual parsing.

📁 6. Sidebar TreeView

A permanent panel inside the Explorer sidebar:

• System Info
• Versions
• Environment Variables
• Snapshots

Auto-refreshable and easy to browse.

⚙️ Requirements

No prerequisites required. Works on:

• Windows
• macOS
• Linux

The extension does not require admin access or elevated permissions.

🔧 Extension Settings

This extension contributes the following settings:

devEnv.snapshotPath

(Optional) Override the default folder where snapshots are stored.

Example:

"devEnv.snapshotPath": "D:/env-snapshots"

If not set → snapshots are stored in VS Code’s global extension storage.

🐞 Known Issues

• Some tools may not respond consistently to --version on older systems.
• Very large PATH variables may cause slow rendering (planned optimization).
• Snapshot comparison currently shows flat diffs (hierarchy coming soon).

Report issues at:

👉 https://github.com///issues

(I can generate the whole GitHub repo boilerplate if you want.)

📝 Release Notes

1.0.0

• Initial release
• System Info viewer
• Versions scanner
• Environment viewer
• Snapshot creator
• Snapshot diff viewer
• Sidebar explorer

1.1.0 (suggested future updates)

• Added copy-to-clipboard buttons
• Added list of installed compilers/interpreters
• Multi-snapshot diff

📘 Following Extension Guidelines

• https://code.visualstudio.com/api/references/extension-guidelines

Enjoy!

Environ is designed to make your dev environment transparent, reproducible, and easy to debug. If you'd like to add more features—React UI, themes, cloud sync, GitHub Gist snapshot sharing—just ask!