Notifications

@mosetta/ide-plugin-notifications · What the IDE has to say, as lines that go away — never as a modal dialog.

What it does

Messages from the IDE and its plugins appear as a stack of short lines in a corner: an info line, a warning, an error, or a line for work in progress that turns into its result when the work is done ("Pushing…" → "Pushed 2 commits"). A line goes away by itself after a minute, or on a click; nothing blocks the interface or asks you to press OK.

Screenshots and demos

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Using it from another plugin

Notifications are a core service; this plugin only draws them. Every plugin says things through its own ide:

this.ide.say(this.ide.t('notes.saved'));          // an info line
this.ide.complain(this.ide.t('notes.failed'));    // an error line

const done = this.ide.working(this.ide.t('notes.syncing'));
try {
  await this.sync();
  done(this.ide.t('notes.synced'));
} catch (err) {
  done(String(err), true);                         // the same line turns into an error
}

this.ide.sayOnce('notes.status', this.ide.t('notes.offline')); // one line per slot, replaced rather than repeated

Text shown to a person is always a dictionary key, never a literal in code: labels are data, and a test holds every plugin to it.