Description
The Vscode page itself says that the Vscode editor is an AI-powered refiner editor, but if it is, I see no reason not to make one of its most useful tools, the Simple Browser, an essential tool and place it permanently in the same sidebar as the tools: git, extensions, search
"Oh, but why? What's the reason?" Well, as you know, developers and especially frontend people often make quick use of servers to see their projects as quickly as possible, but to this day, my programmer friends who use Vscode don't even know that the Simple Browser tool exists and because of that they use alternative things that have the same function, but are from the extension store, such as the live server:
That said, I think that if vscode really wants to be an editor at the forefront of AI and be extremely useful to developers, they should consider making the simple browser an essential tool in the IDE kit and making it stand out along with the rest of the features that are in the sidebar, because it is useful for many things, especially for beginner developers, such as: directly opening an HTML file, starting a server quickly and directly in the IDE.
The idea I'm going to give is that, if you put it in the sidebar along with the rest, when the user clicks on its icon, it opens an option on the side, just like it opens when I click on the explorer, and that briefly explains its functions, so, for example:
There will be a brief explanation of what it does and below it you can put some buttons like: Haven't tried it yet? Don't know how it works? Click here and maybe redirect to a video teaching how to use it, and below these buttons, you can put buttons like: Select a file within the project that is currently open, so it opens in Simple Browser, so for example, if I click on the button: "Open in", instead of opening the file explorer, it would open an option within VSCode, showing me only the compatible files (with Simple Browser) like HTML files, which can be opened, server initialization files, etc.