Show HN: Depot – A Structured Data Editor Built into VS Code

Hey HN,

Happy to show you all Depot. After seeing the potential of Code's new Custom Editor Extension API, I took it upon myself to port some of the primary features of one of my favorite pieces of software, CastleDB, into Code itself.

Depot is a structured data editor for Visual Studio Code that allows you to edit JSON data like a spreadsheet. Data you would normally store in raw JSON or XML can instead be stored, edited, and managed, all through a single Depot file.

The key part about Depot is that it not only provides you a much nicer interface for editing JSON (spreadsheet instead of a long text file), but also that it stores the data model itself inside of the JSON file. That way if you're importing a Depot file into your project, the file you're importing contains the information about how to read and interpret it.

I've also made an explainer video here which walks through using it as well as its main features: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCTQvd3zkEg

Thanks!