Sofa (Stackoverflow Answers) Extension

Sofa is a open-source MIT-licensed vscode extension that is designed to speed up your coding time by bringing you the answers related to your problem on stackoverflow.com.

Features

• Retrieves all answers and scrapes the code out of them for you to use it.
• Retrieved codes can be selected from vscode QuickPick.
• Language of the current file is added to your question automatically.
• Opens your browser and directs you to the stackoverflow page (optional)

Usage

• Type your problem and press ctrl + enter to retrieve the codes. You can pick on of the results from vscode.QuickPick. Press ctrl + enter again to get the stackoverflow question page.

Examples

• Python

# read line by line
with open(filename) as file:
    lines = file.readlines()
    lines = [line.rstrip() for line in lines]

• Html

<!-- div side by side -->
<div style="width: 100%; display: table;">
    <div style="display: table-row">
        <div style="width: 600px; display: table-cell;"> Left </div>
        <div style="display: table-cell;"> Right </div>
    </div>
</div>

• Javascript

 // traverse all elements
var all = document.getElementsByTagName("*");
for (var i = 0; i < all.length; i++) {
    console.log(all[i].nodeName);
}