Stop Hand-Editing JSON: Engineering Your VS Code Theme with YAML

This article, Part 2 of a series on VS Code theme development, addresses the maintainability problems of monolithic JSON theme files by refactoring them into modular YAML source files with a build script. It introduces a directory structure separating color variables, per-language syntax rules, workbench UI colors, and semantic highlighting into individual YAML files under a src/ folder, which are then compiled into the final JSON theme.