Feat: Recommended Resources

[raygervais]

Purely just throwing the idea, not implying it's a needed concept

Description and Idea Behind

Similar to curating content found on social media, I've found having peer-reviewed recommendations to be invaluable when learning; removing some of the ambiguity of all the links found in a Google search.

Imagine you're working on a rust project and VS Code has identified that is the language currently open in an editor:

A small window pane opens to the side (or, can be opened via the command prompt if we don't want to clutter the UI?) with a set of links relative to the language (documentation, How-to) which has been provided and rated by the Seneca community. Users can submit and rate resources so that it can be peer reviewed and validated.

I believe this could be useful for all devs, both new and seasoned who are looking for highly spoken of resources for:

• Learning a new language
• Using a popular framework
• Common idioms of a language or platform
• etc

Steps to consider

• Users would have to be authenticated, would not want anon interaction.
• Something like this would involve a back end service external to the client to perform basic CRUD operators
• Ratings, Submissions would be attached to the user for easier auditing
• Spam filtering would need to be considered. I see any CRUD-centric app being a terrible headache when it comes to content aggregation and submissions

[humphd]

I like this, since it unifies a goal of almost all of the "Seneca Devs," namely, to learn how to do what they are currently doing.

We could try this out using something simpler to begin: showing static content (HTML) in a pane in the editor that is relevant to the file/project you're working on currently. Curation could begin by being done as Markdown in a repo, and we could consume this in the extension.