Building a Universal Drafts System in a VS Code Extension — Part 1: Types & Storage

How I designed the Draft type, DraftsService, and the save/upsert flow that powers DotShare v3.2.5 — with full TypeScript code and the decisions behind every choice. Before v3.2.5, DotShare had zero persistence. Write a 2,000-word Dev.to article in the WebView, switch tabs to check something, come back — gone. Reset. Empty form. So I built a drafts system. This is Part 1: how I modeled the data and built the storage layer. Part 2 covers the Two-Way Markdown Sync, Remote Dev.to Drafts, the WebVie