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vscodethemes/web
Search and preview themes from the VS Code Marketplace.
vscodethemes.com is a search and preview site for VS Code Marketplace themes, letting you see how a theme looks before installing it. It's been running since 2018 and is now on its fourth major rewrite, currently built with Remix and shadcn/ui. Useful for anyone who spends time theme-hunting and hates installing-uninstalling cycles.
The live preview approach is the core value and it works — you can see syntax highlighting across multiple languages without touching your editor. The Remix architecture is a reasonable fit: server-rendered pages, good URL structure for sharing specific themes, and the route-based OG image generation (`e.$slug.$theme[.png].tsx`) means social previews actually show the theme. Self-hosted Plausible analytics is a nice touch — no third-party tracking pixels. Eight years of continuous operation with four rewrites is evidence of real maintenance commitment, not an abandoned side project.
`.tmTheme` files are not supported, which silently excludes a meaningful chunk of older but still-popular themes — this is a hard gap, not a minor edge case. The scraper/sync pipeline that keeps the database fresh is not in this repo at all, so if you want to self-host you're missing the half that actually does the work. No dark-mode previews for extensions that only ship a light variant (or vice versa) — you get whatever the theme author declared as default. The shadcn/ui components are stock with no real customization, so the UI feels generic for a site whose entire purpose is visual design.