Export @code Extensions to a Markdown List

README.md

You can run either of the following snippets in your terminal to generate a markdown list of your VS Code extensions.

code --list-extensions | awk '{ print "* [" $1 "](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items\?itemName\=" $1 ")" }'

npx https://gist.github.com/elijahmanor/7f9762a4c2296839ad33e33513e88043

NOTE: You can append | pbcopy to either of the above commands to pipe the output to your Mac's copy/paste buffer.

index.js

#!/usr/bin/env node

const { exec } = require("child_process");
exec("code --list-extensions", (err, stdout) => {
  if (err) { return; }
  const markdown = stdout.split("\n").filter( e => e ).map(extension =>
    `* [${extension}](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items\?itemName\=${extension})`
  ).join("\n");
  console.log(markdown);
});

package.json

{
  "name": "vscode-extension-markdown",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "bin": "./index.js"
}

Very cool! Thanks for the Egghead videos too