Dev.to Syntax

Name: Dev.to Syntax
Author: Milton Vafana ZW

Publisher: Milton Vafana ZWThemes in package: 3

Auto-configure VSCode to mimic dev.to code block styling: Fira Code ligatures, color theme, icon theme, bracket and indent styling.

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Full workbench mockup using this variant's colors and tokenColors.

fetchUser.ts

index.ts

README.md

src

components

fetchUser.ts

User

tags

export interface User {
  id: string;
  name: string;
  role: "admin" | "member";
  tags: string[];
}

/**
 * Fetch user data by ID
 * @param id
 * @returns User object or null if ID is invalid
 */
export async function fetchUser(id: string): Promise<User | null> {
  if (!id) {
    return null;
  }

  const response = await fetch(`/api/users/${id}`, {
    method: "GET",
    headers: { Accept: "application/json" },
  });

  if (!response.ok) {
    throw new Error(`HTTP ${response.status}`);
  }

  return (await response.json()) as User;
}

function greet(user: User): string {
  // Simple greeting function that uses the user's name
  return `Hello, ${user.name}!`;
}

Problems1

Output

Debug Console

Terminal

Ports

~/my-project $ pnpm test
✓ fetchUser passed 12blk
✗Cannot find name 'user'. error
▲warning 412 readylocalhost
http://localhost:3000

WSL

1 1

main*

Copilot

Ln 5, Col 12

Spaces: 2

UTF-8

TypeScript

Dev.to Syntax

colors

Workbench UI color keys from the theme JSON colors map.

key	HEX	RGB	RGBA
activityBar.background
activityBar.foreground
editor.background
editor.foreground
editor.inactiveSelectionBackground
editor.lineHighlightBackground
editor.selectionBackground
editorBracketHighlight.foreground1
editorBracketHighlight.foreground2
editorBracketHighlight.foreground3
editorBracketHighlight.unexpectedBracket.foreground
editorCursor.foreground
editorIndentGuide.activeBackground
editorIndentGuide.background
editorLineNumber.foreground
list.activeSelectionBackground
list.focusBackground
list.hoverBackground
panel.background
panel.border
sideBar.background
sideBar.foreground
statusBar.background
statusBar.foreground
tab.activeBackground
tab.activeForeground
tab.inactiveBackground
tab.inactiveForeground
terminal.background
terminal.foreground
terminalCursor.foreground

tokenColors

Foregrounds this theme assigns to the token scope catalog. A rule with only a font style is skipped, and a longer matching scope wins. Italic and bold rules are not listed — the preview above shows them in the code.

scope	HEX	RGB	RGBA
comment
comment.block
comment.block.documentation
comment.line
constant
constant.character
constant.character.escape
constant.numeric
constant.numeric.integer
constant.numeric.float
constant.numeric.hex
constant.numeric.octal
constant.other
constant.other.placeholder
constant.regexp
constant.rgb-value
entity
entity.name
entity.name.function
entity.name.type
entity.name.type.enum
entity.name.type.interface
entity.name.type.struct
invalid
invalid.deprecated
invalid.illegal
keyword
keyword.control
keyword.control.flow
keyword.operator
keyword.operator.new
keyword.operator.assignment
keyword.operator.arithmetic
keyword.operator.logical
keyword.other
meta
punctuation.definition.bracket
punctuation.definition.comment
punctuation.definition.string.begin
punctuation.definition.string.end
punctuation.separator
punctuation.separator.continuation
punctuation.terminator
storage
storage.type
string
string.interpolated
string.other
string.quoted
string.quoted.double
string.quoted.other
string.quoted.single
string.quoted.triple
string.regexp
string.template
string.unquoted
support
support.class
support.function
support.type
support.type.primitive
support.type.property-name
variable
variable.function
variable.language
variable.name
variable.other
variable.other.constant
variable.other.property
variable.other.readwrite
variable.parameter

Dev.to Syntax

Color themes

VS Code preview

colors

tokenColors

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Color themes

VS Code preview

colors

tokenColors

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