
Click-through learning with VS Code and Didact
The Didact project is designed to fill a void in Visual Studio Code, but what exactly is it? And more importantly, why should you care?
Didact started as a “What if?” VS Code doesn’t provide a great way to walk users through a step-wise tutorial. “What if” we could meet that need by combining the following:
- A simple markup language (such as Markdown or AsciiDoc).
- The ability to render the markup as HTML using the VS Code webview.
- A way to invoke the commands we create for each VS Code extension.
And over the course of a day or so of coding, I had a working prototype.
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