Launching VSCode From Script

[josephcrawfordSRH]

Good Morning,

I am working on a script that will list out my projects and allow me to select one, it will then get a list of all branches for the project and allow me to select one. I then want it to open this branch of the project in VSCode and I have an arg asking if it should open in a new editor or use an existing open one. However this does not appear to be working. It keeps opening new editors rather than using the existing editor that is open.

let windowFlag = "-n";

if (await arg("Open in a new window?", ["Yes", "No"]) === "No") {
  console.log('opening in new window');
  windowFlag = "-r";
}

await $`code ${windowFlag} ${projectPath}`;

I have debugged this and found that it is in fact using the -r when I say No, but VSCode keeps opening new editors.

I know this is probably an issue with the VSCode CLI utility and not that of Script Kit but I was wondering is there a better way this could be done in script kit rather than executing a shell command?

Also does Script Kit come with any caching helpers that would create cache files for a script under the cache directory and allow you to check them, etc?

I am going to implement caching for my project list and branches and then another script to refresh the caches so that I am not waiting so long every time the projects/branches are listed.

[josephcrawfordSRH]

Apologies it is actually working properly I had a logic flaw. Is there a better way though?

[johnlindquist]

@josephcrawfordSRH

There's a db helper for simple scenarios like this. It can take an async function it will run if the data doesn't exist yet.

Note: "Actions" are part of v2

let initDb = async (page = 1) => {
  let result = await get(`https://swapi.dev/api/people?page=${page}`)
  return {
    people: result.data.results,
  }
}

let peopleDb = await db(initDb)

let updateDb = async () => {
  let page = 2
  let { people } = await initDb(page)
  peopleDb.people = people
  peopleDb.write()
}

let actions = [
  {
    name: "Refresh DB",
    shortcut: `${cmd}+3`,
    visible: true,
    onAction: async () => {
      await updateDb()
      setChoices(peopleDb.people.map(p => p.name))
    },
  },
]

let name = await arg(
  "Select a person",
  peopleDb.people.map(p => p.name),
  actions
)

[josephcrawfordSRH]

@johnlindquist oh this is nice, that would keep me from needing a cache file as I currently do.

I created this under kenvPath('cache/script-name.json)

{
    "editor": "code",
    "projects": [
        "project_1",
        "project_2",
        "project_3"
    ],
    "branches": {
        "8768896033379111": [ // this key is a hash of the project id as some characters were not working as object id
            "branch_1",
            "branch_2",
            "branch_3"
        ]
    }
}