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VS Code Developers Help Out with COVID-19 Extensions

By David Ramel
04/01/2020

With the web providing more and more tools, trackers, guidance and many other resources related to the COVID-19 pandemic, some developers are trying to help out with extensions that have begun appearing in the Visual Studio Code Marketplace.

So far, the extensions number only three:

COVID-19 Tracker: "Track COVID-19 around the world in realtime." This was published on March 22 by Justin Woodward. It lets developers specify the list of countries to be displayed in the status bar and display global data in the status bar. It has 23 installations at the time of this writing.
COVID-19 Stats: "A simple VSCode extension based on TreeView-API and coronavirus-tracker (API)." The Tree View API allows extensions to show content in the sidebar in VS Code. The site for coronavirus-tracker (API), in German, provides a free icon.

The COVID-19 Stats Extension (source: 4gray).

This extension was released on March 22 by "4gray." It lists worldwide and individual country statistics. It had been installed 65 times at press time.
COVID-19 Theme: "I hope you like it." This was released on March 23 by Hamad Al Marri, downloaded 18 times.

So far, no COVID-19 related extensions appear in the Visual Studio Marketplace.

Among the plethora of other online tools and other resources provided by tech companies and others are:

Open collaboration on COVID-19 by GitHub.
"Free Tools Based on Trusted Data to Track COVID-19 Cases on Your Phone and Online" by IBM. See more here.
COVID-19 Data Hub from data visualization specialist Tableau.
"An interactive web-based dashboard to track COVID-19 in real time" by The Lancet.
COVID-19 Screening Tool from Apple, which says, "This tool can help you understand what to do next about COVID-19."
Tracking Coronavirus COVID-19 from location specialist HERE.
COVID-19 Tracker from Microsoft Bing.
A RapidAPI roundup of free COVID-19 Data APIs, tutorials for using them and other guidance for using its services.
Google Maps Platform COVID-19 Developer Resource Hub
Build a solution for the COVID-19 crisis from MIT, which is hosting a series of challenges to empower developers to take action on the COVID-19 crisis.

About the Author

David Ramel is an editor and writer at Converge 360.

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