Vibe-coding an VSCode extension (activity bar & viewer issues)

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I need some help. I am vibe-coding a vibe-coding extension for vibe-coders to vibe with… meaning, I’ve been vibe-coding for about 8 months and want to make an extension that improves human/LLM communication and makes each parties job easier. It should help with some of the major problems that vibe-coders run into.

That said, I’m running into issues getting two things to work.

  1. The extension won’t show up in the activity bar where other extensions are showing up. Not sure what these extensions are doing that mine isn’t.
  2. The viewer for the extension that happens in the file viewer panel is consistently blank. I have asked for better debug output and iterated over this many times, to no avail.

I’m curious if there are any devs who have experience coding extensions for VSCode that could help. Thanks so much in advance.

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Hey, thanks for the report.

There’s a known issue with webview panels: Webview-based extensions fail to render in the bottom panel, but work in the side bar. Webview-based extensions don’t render correctly in the bottom panel, but they work in the side bar.

I’d also recommend checking the official VS Code docs on extension development:

Cursor supports VS Code extensions via the Open VSX registry with additional verification:

Share a bit more detail and I’ll help you narrow it down.