#CREATING VISUAL STUDIO EXTENSIONS CODE#

Understanding how to create a Visual Studio Code extension.

'testytest.10 Creating Your Own Extensions WHAT'S IN THIS CHAPTER? This is not required by any means, just a note. By setting the activation event to * this means your extension will be loaded when VS Code starts up.

In theory, this event could be anything, and more specifically * anything. By default, it is set to activate when our command is run. Again, this section contains a list of events that will activate our extension whenever they occur. Step 4 - Editing Your ExtensionД«efore we work on code, letвЂ™s take one more look at the activationEvents section in the package.json file. YouвЂ™ll see a вЂњHello WorldвЂќ message pop up in the lower right-hand corner. With this debug instance of VS Code open, you can open the command palette with COMMAND+SHIFT+P on Mac or CTRL+SHIFT+P on Windows and run Hello World. This will open up a new (debug) instance of VS Code. Open the debug tab on the left on the left of your screen, and then click the вЂњplayвЂќ icon. '-extensionDevelopmentPath=$'ДЇrom here, we can debug.

commands: list of commands that you provide the user to run via your extension.

Extensions are lazy-loaded so they arenвЂ™t activated until one of these activation events occurs.

activationEvents: this is a list of events that will activate your extension.

There are two more sections that are very important. YouвЂ™ll see the name, description, and so on. ? Enable JavaScript type checking in 'jsconfig.json'? YesДЄfter this process is complete, you will have all of the files you need to get started. ? What's the description of your extension? This is a test extension ? What's the identifier of your extension? testytest ? What's the name of your extension? testytest For this tutorial, the following choices were selected: ? What type of extension do you want to create? New Extension (JavaScript) Then you will be presented with a few more questions. We will be choosing JavaScript in this tutorial. You will need to choose what kind of extension you are creating and between вЂњTypeScriptвЂќ and вЂњJavaScriptвЂќ. You will then answer several questions about your project. You are now ready to create your first extension. You can use the built-in Terminal for Visual Studio Code to use npx to run local copies of yo and generator-code and then run the command yo code to initialize your new project:ДЄt this point, Yeoman will run the Code generator.

#CREATING VISUAL STUDIO EXTENSIONS GENERATOR#

generator-code - a Yeoman generator for writing Visual Studio Code extensions.

yo - a command-line interface for Yeoman.

To get started with developing VS Code Extensions, youвЂ™ll need two different npm packages: The Visual Studio Code team created a generator for creating extensions, which generates all of the necessary starter files to begin creating your extension. This tutorial was verified with Node v14.4.0, npm v6.14.5, yo v3.1.1, and generator-code v1.2.16.

#CREATING VISUAL STUDIO EXTENSIONS INSTALL#

Node.js installed on your machine following How To Install Node.js and Create a Local Development Environment.Download and install the latest version of Visual Studio Code.To complete this tutorial, you will need: In this article, youвЂ™ll create your first Visual Studio Code extension. When you canвЂ™t find an extension that does exactly what you need, it is possible to create your own. It offers extensions that you can install through the Visual Studio Code Marketplace for additional features in your editor. Visual Studio Code is a code editor from Microsoft available on Windows, Linux, and macOS.

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