Topcoder Workflow VSCode Extension | Secure Sessions and Login Flow Updates

Challenge Objectives

• Update the Device Code based login flow

• Implement the Secure Sessions feature in Topcoder’s VSCode extension

 

Project Background

• Topcoder has an extension in Visual Studio Code and package in Atom

• The extension / package is meant to closely integrate the Topcoder platform with the text editors, to allow the user to perform actions from within the editor, without having to open a browser.

 

Technology Stack

• Typescript

 

Code access

You can find the code here. Use the device-auth-flow branch as your base branch

 

Individual requirements

We will share a document in the contest forum that contains the details

 

Deployment guide and validation document

• The “true” deployment guide is the one named Local-Development.md. We will be moving this to the Github Wiki but until then, you will need to update this file, if necessary.

• The README file is the file that is used by users when installing the extension. Thus, you will update the file with only that information that is needed for users installing the extension

 

Important Notes

• Follow existing conventions used in the app

• Ensure you do not have any lint errors

• Ensure that you update the tests and they should succeed

Final Submission Guidelines

Submit a git patch of your changes inside a zip file. You will be actually submitting 2 git patch files. Kindly read the document shared in the contest forum