VS Code Simplest Notifier

A VS Code extension that allows you to easily send notifications from external sources. Simply write to a JSON file and notifications will appear. Notifications can also make inactive windows blink in the taskbar.

Features

• Simple file-based notification system
• Easy notifications from external scripts, CI/CD, and other applications
• Notification types: info, warning, error
• Communication file: /tmp/vscode-notifications.json

Usage

Simplest Method

# Basic notification
echo '{"message": "Hello from terminal!", "type": "info"}' > /tmp/vscode-notifications.json

# Warning notification
echo '{"message": "Warning message", "type": "warning"}' > /tmp/vscode-notifications.json

# Error notification
echo '{"message": "Error occurred", "type": "error"}' > /tmp/vscode-notifications.json

How It Works

1. The extension starts file monitoring on startup
2. Write messages to /tmp/vscode-notifications.json
3. The extension detects file changes and displays notifications using VS Code's notification API
4. Notifications appear in VS Code

License

MIT License - see LICENSE file for details.

Author

Sakaguchi Ryo
📧 sakaguchi@sk-techfirm.com

• GitHub: @sk-guritech
• Repository: vscode-simplest-notifier