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Welcome to your first VS Code Extension
What's in the folder
- This folder contains all of the files necessary for your extension
package.json
- this is the manifest file in which you declare your extension and command. The sample plugin registers a command and defines its title and command name. With this information VS Code can show the command in the command palette. It doesn’t yet need to load the plugin.extension.js
- this is the main file where you will provide the implementation of your command. The file exports one function,activate
, which is called the very first time your extension is activated (in this case by executing the command). Inside theactivate
function we callregisterCommand
. We pass the function containing the implementation of the command as the second parameter toregisterCommand
.
Get up and running straight away
- press
F5
to open a new window with your extension loaded - run your command from the command palette by pressing (
Ctrl+Shift+P
orCmd+Shift+P
on Mac) and typingHello World
- set breakpoints in your code inside extension.ts to debug your extension
- find output from your extension in the debug console
Make changes
- you can relaunch the extension from the debug toolbar after changing code in
extension.js
- you can also reload (
Ctrl+R
orCmd+R
on Mac) the VS Code window with your extension to load your changes
Explore the API
- you can open the full set of our API when you open the file
node_modules/vscode/vscode.d.ts
Run tests
- open the debug viewlet (
Ctrl+Shift+D
orCmd+Shift+D
on Mac) and from the launch configuration dropdown pickLaunch 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
test/extension.test.js
or create new test files inside thetest
folder- by convention, the test runner will only consider files matching the name pattern
**.test.js
- you can create folders inside the
test
folder to structure your tests any way you want
- by convention, the test runner will only consider files matching the name pattern