How would you automate updating vscode extensions?

[hydrajump]

I'm considering using this project instead of the old extensions packaged in nixpkgs in my home-manager standalone config.

It seems that the steps to update the extensions would look like this:

1. nix flake update
2. Get the rev of nixpkgs from the flake.lock
3. Find the latest vscode version using the nixpkgs rev from step 2:
   https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/e92039b55bcd58469325ded85d4f58dd5a4eaf58/pkgs/applications/editors/vscode/vscode.nix#L43
4. Update vscode_version in config.toml with version from step 3
5. Get the latest vscode extensions for the version in step 4, cargo run -- config.toml
6. Update home manager config home-manager switch --flake .

Is there a more convenient way to do this?

[cathaysia]

Generally speaking, I rarely update the entire flake.lock. I will update vscode extension regularly. This step is completed through github actions.

[hydrajump]

Can you share your github action for how you update your extensions? Is it a pull request that yo occasionally accept and then pull down your repo and rebuild your HM config?

[cathaysia]

just like this:

name: CI

on:
  workflow_dispatch:
  schedule:
    - cron: "0 0 * * 5"

jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    permissions:
      contents: write
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
      - name: Install Nix
        uses: cachix/install-nix-action@v18
        with:
          extra_nix_config: |
            access-tokens = github.com=${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
      - uses: actions-rs/toolchain@v1
        with:
          toolchain: nightly
      - run: cargo +nightly install --git https://github.com/cathaysia/nix4vscode
      - name: Update vscode extension
        run: |
          bash -c 'cd home/dot_config/home-manager && nix flake update "nix-vscode-extensions"'
          bash -c 'nix4vscode home/dot_config/home-manager/config.toml -o home/dot_config/home-manager/config/vscode_plugins.nix'
      - uses: EndBug/add-and-commit@v9
        with:
          author_name: bot
          author_email: [email protected]
          commit: --signoff
          message: "feat(vscode): Update vscode extension"

[hydrajump]

Thank you for sharing! The only thing I need to do manually is make sure that the vscode_version in config.toml is the same as the installed version.