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stack-search

Increase your efficiency, efficiently

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stack-search

Increase your efficiency, efficiently

The problem stack-search solves

Don't yo just hate it when you have to constantly go over to a browser window while coding to search for answers to your problems?
Well, worry not, stack-search is a smart Visual Studio Code Extension that can help you to search stack overflow and paste answers directly, you can also see different problems which best describe your problem and also see multiple answers for the same problem.
The whole extension works around hotkeys, for example:
shift & ` will trigger the search box
shift & + will take you to the next question
shift & - will take you to the previous question
shift & u will undo whatever the extension has done to your file
escape for leaving the search box

Using hotkeys makes it very fast and efficient for developers to use
Also, the extension only gives verified answers or the ones with the most upvotes
if a question doesn't have an answer, the extension will simply not waste your time by showing it

Challenges we ran into

We had never ever built a VS Code extension before and this was our first time, however, the vs code api taught us a lot not just in the api itself but javascript as a language too.
We were looking for something very quick to trigger our extension so we even made use of hotkeys

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