Is this suitable for stand-alone web applications?

[nikeee]

With some hacks (providing a CSS with the respective variables extracted from VSCode), these controls can be used for stand-alone web applications outside of VSCode.

It seems that it's not currently in the scope. Is this planned?

[hawkticehurst]

Hey @nikeee, from a technical perspective the toolkit components should theoretically work fine in a stand-alone web app since they're just web components.

Also as you noted, yes, you will probably need to provide the correct CSS variables if you want proper theming. However, the toolkit components ship with the VS Code dark theme as a default out of box, so if you only need dark theme then you could likely get away without the CSS variable work.

With all that said, to answer your original question, catering to a web app environment is not currently planned at this time. We've built this library with VS Code's webview extension environment specifically in mind (which can sometimes be slightly different from a traditional browser environment we've discovered), so as maintainers we cannot make any strong guarantees about the toolkit's suitability in web apps since we're not building or testing for that environment.

[hawkticehurst]

I'm also going to go ahead and close this issue since it's outside the scope of what we're doing in the toolkit at this time, but please do feel free to add follow-up questions/comments and I'll keep an eye on this thread!