Auto update vs links

gulpfile.js

@@ -113,6 +113,9 @@ gulp.task("styles", function () {
     .pipe(reload({stream: true}));
 });
 
+// Updates the file: src/_data/urls.json
+gulp.task("automate:download_urls", shell.task("node scripts/updateURLs.js"));
+
 gulp.task("handbook-images", function() {
   return gulp.src("./TypeScript-Handbook/assets/images/**")
     .pipe(changed("site/assets/images"))
@@ -303,5 +306,5 @@ gulp.task("build", ["jekyll:prod", "styles"], function () {});
 // Builds your site with the "build" command and then runs all the optimizations on
 // it and outputs it to "./site"
 gulp.task("publish", ["build"], function () {
-  gulp.start("html", "copy", "images", "handbook-images", "fonts", "scripts", "cname", "webconfig", "playground");
+  gulp.start("automate:download_urls", "html", "copy", "images", "handbook-images", "fonts", "scripts", "cname", "webconfig", "playground");
 });

package.json

@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@
   "dependencies": {},
   "devDependencies": {
     "@types/jquery": "^2.0.34",
+    "@types/node": "^12.7.0",
+    "axios": "^0.19.0",
     "browser-sync": "^2.0.0",
     "del": "^1.1.1",
     "gh-pages": "^2.0.0",

scripts/updateURLs.js

@@ -0,0 +1,87 @@
+// @ts-check
+
+/**
+ * A script to automatically update the Visual Studio links
+ * based on the latest *stable* version of TypeScript shipped
+ * to npm.
+ */
+
+
+const axios = require('axios').default;
+const {writeFileSync} = require("fs")
+
+/**
+ * Gets the NPM package JSON for a module
+ * @param {string} name 
+ */
+const getLatestNPMPackage = async (name) => {
+  const packageJSON = await axios({
+    url: `https://registry.npmjs.org/${name}`
+  })
+
+  return packageJSON.data
+}
+
+/**
+ * Queries the VS markplace for typescript extensions, returns
+ * only official extensions
+ */
+const getLatestVSExtensions = async () => {
+  var headers = {
+      'Content-Type': 'application/json',
+      'Accept': 'application/json;api-version=5.2-preview.1;excludeUrls=true',
+      'Host': 'marketplace.visualstudio.com',
+      'Origin': 'https://marketplace.visualstudio.com',
+      'Referer': 'https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/search?term=typescript&target=VS&category=All%20categories&vsVersion=vs2019&sortBy=Relevance',
+      'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_5) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/12.1.1 Safari/605.1.15',
+      'Content-Length': '1082',
+      'Connection': 'keep-alive',
+      'X-TFS-Session': 'e16c1b5b-850f-42ee-ab7c-519c79f6e356',
+      'X-Requested-With': 'XMLHttpRequest',
+      'X-VSS-ReauthenticationAction': 'Suppress',
+  };
+
+  const query = (name) =>
+  `{"assetTypes":["Microsoft.VisualStudio.Services.Icons.Default","Microsoft.VisualStudio.Services.Icons.Branding","Microsoft.VisualStudio.Services.Icons.Small"],"filters":[{"criteria":[{"filterType":8,"value":"Microsoft.VisualStudio.Ide"},{"filterType":10,"value":"${name}"},{"filterType":12,"value":"37888"}],"direction":2,"pageSize":54,"pageNumber":1,"sortBy":0,"sortOrder":0,"pagingToken":null}],"flags":870}`
+
+
+  const extensionSearchResults = await axios({
+    url: 'https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/_apis/public/gallery/extensionquery',
+    method: 'POST',
+    headers: headers,
+    data: query("typescript")
+  })
+
+  if (!extensionSearchResults.data || !extensionSearchResults.data.results) {
+    throw new Error("Got a bad response from VS marketplace")
+  }
+
+  const extensions = extensionSearchResults.data.results[0].extensions
+  const officialExtensions = extensions.filter(e => e.publisher.publisherId === "4f0355d2-4a53-4ab1-a8ea-507f4a333a6f")
+  return officialExtensions
+}
+
+const go = async () => {
+  // curl https://registry.npmjs.org/typescript | jq
+  console.log("Grabbing the TypeScript package from NPM, this takes about 10-15s")
+  const tsPackage = await getLatestNPMPackage("typescript")
+  const latest = tsPackage["dist-tags"].latest
+
+  console.log(`Grabbing the VS TypeScript extension for ${latest} from the marketplace`)
+  const extensions = await getLatestVSExtensions()
+  const currentExtension = extensions.find(e => e.versions[0].version === latest)
+
+  // @ts-ignore
+  const currentURLs = require("../src/_data/urls")
+
+  if (currentExtension) {
+    const extensionURL = `https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=TypeScriptTeam.${currentExtension.extensionName}`
+     currentURLs.vs2017_download  = extensionURL
+     currentURLs.vs2019_download  = extensionURL
+  }
+
+  writeFileSync("src/_data/urls.json", JSON.stringify(currentURLs, null, "  "))
+  console.log(`Updated src/_data/urls.json`)
+}
+
+go()

src/_data/urls.json

@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+{
+  "vs2017_download": "https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=TypeScriptTeam.typescript-353",
+  "vs2019_download": "https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=TypeScriptTeam.typescript-353",
+  "vscode_download": "https://code.visualstudio.com",
+  "sublime_ts_download": "https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript-Sublime-Plugin",
+  "atom_ts_download": "https://atom.io/packages/atom-typescript",
+  "eclipse_ts_download": "https://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/codemix-3",
+  "webstorm_download": "https://www.jetbrains.com/webstorm/",
+  "vim_ts_download": "https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/wiki/TypeScript-Editor-Support#vim",
+  "emacs_ts_download": "https://github.com/ananthakumaran/tide",
+  "ts_github": "https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript",
+  "ts_github_issues": "https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/issues",
+  "ts_spec_markdown": "https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/blob/master/doc/spec.md",
+  "ts_spec_docx": "https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/blob/master/doc/TypeScript%20Language%20Specification.docx?raw=true",
+  "ts_spec_pdf": "https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/blob/master/doc/TypeScript%20Language%20Specification.pdf?raw=true",
+  "definitelytyped_github": "https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped",
+  "ts_blog": "http://blogs.msdn.com/b/typescript/",
+  "ts_stackoverflow_tagged": "https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/typescript",
+  "ts_twitter": "https://twitter.com/typescript/",
+  "ts_twitter_search": "https://twitter.com/search?q=%23typescript",
+  "landing_page_video": "http://video.ch9.ms/ch9/4ae3/062c336d-9cf0-498f-ae9a-582b87954ae3/B881_mid.mp4"
+}