Goal

The goal of this stream was to build a VS Code extension that could hide all of the values displayed in a .env file.

The Outcome

We got so close to getting everything working, but when using the event system in VS Code, the file would completely render out the values of the .env file for a brief second then they would disapper. For the purposes of streaming, this simply wasn’t acceptable. Showing the values even for that short amount of time made a potential extension worthless.

Unfortunately, we ran into the limitations of VS Code. It’s currently impossible to manipulate the font of a file before the file has loaded. There’s nothing in VS Code to hook into to change things early enough.