- This folder contains all of the files necessary for your extension.
package.json
- this is the manifest file in which you declare your language support and define the location of the grammar file that has been copied into your extension.syntaxes/div.tmLanguage.json
- this is the Text mate grammar file that is used for tokenization.language-configuration.json
- this is the language configuration, defining the tokens that are used for comments and brackets.
- Make sure the language configuration settings in
language-configuration.json
are accurate. - Press
F5
to open a new window with your extension loaded. - Create a new file with a file name suffix matching your language.
- Verify that syntax highlighting works and that the language configuration settings are working.
- You can relaunch the extension from the debug toolbar after making changes to the files listed above.
- You can also reload (
Ctrl+R
orCmd+R
on Mac) the VS Code window with your extension to load your changes.
- To add features such as intellisense, hovers and validators check out the VS Code extenders documentation at https://code.visualstudio.com/docs
- You can open the full set of our API when you open the file
node_modules/@types/vscode/index.d.ts
.
- To start using your extension with Visual Studio Code copy it into the
<user home>/.vscode/extensions
folder and restart Code. - To share your extension with the world, read on https://code.visualstudio.com/docs about publishing an extension.
- Open the debug viewlet (
Ctrl+Shift+D
orCmd+Shift+D
on Mac) and from the launch configuration dropdown pickExtension Tests
. - Press
F5
to run the tests in a new window with your extension loaded. - See the output of the test result in the debug console.
- Make changes to
src/test/suite/extension.test.ts
or create new test files inside thetest/suite
folder.- The provided test runner will only consider files matching the name pattern
**.test.ts
. - You can create folders inside the
test
folder to structure your tests any way you want.
- The provided test runner will only consider files matching the name pattern
- Reduce the extension size and improve the startup time by bundling your extension.
- Publish your extension on the VSCode extension marketplace.
- Automate builds by setting up Continuous Integration.