vsc-extension-quickstart.md

BlogTo is a simple vscode extension which helps your post your ideas from vscode.

Problem Statement:

• Create a utility tool to let people blog faster
• Avoiding the friction
• Giving enough feature and feasilibility.

Reasons to use the extension

• Its in your favourite texteditor
• avoids openning multiple tabs :(
• Having bloging ideas but not working on them

Features (0.5.0):

1. Post blogs to dev.to, medium and hashnode
2. Simple UI
3. Good feedback.
4. Simple to set up

Setup up :

1. Download the extension here
2. Click on the config button, set up the api tokens for medium,dev. to and hashnode.
   1. This will fetch your data and save it localSession in vscode
   2. To reset you can submit the details again.
3. Start posting blogs
4. Issues and Error, contact : pratik@coolhead.in, github here

Upcoming Features,Bugs, issues and possible solutions.

1. Image uploading
   • Extract all the image tags, uploading them on the platform via api, get the image url and replace them in the markdown.
2. There is a limit of 10 requests per 30 seconds.(dev.to)
3. Posting as organisation