* In `C:/Users/<username>/.vscode/extensions/`, `git clone` this repository
### macOS/Linux
*`git clone` this repository
* Run `ln -s <path to repo> ~/.vscode/extensions/vscode-react-native`
* You could clone it to the extensions directory if you want, but working with hidden folders in macOS can be a pain.
### Then...
*`cd` to the folder you just cloned
* Run `npm install -g gulp` and `npm install`
* You may see an error if `bufferutil` or `utf-8-validate` fail to build. These native modules required by `ws` are optional and the debug adapter should work fine without them.
* Run `gulp build`
## Debugging
There are currently 3 components to our extension: The extension running in the VS Code process, the debug adapter, and some code wrapping the user react-native code which is launched by the debug adapter. These are all debugged in different ways:
* To debug the extension process itself, in VS Code run the `Launch Extension` debug target which will spawn a new instance of VS Code with the extension installed. You can set breakpoints in the TypeScript and debug things such as extension activation and the command palette.
* To debug the code running in the same process as the React Native code, open up an instance of VS Code running the extension on a React Native project. From this instance, open up the TypesSript file in the extension codebase that you wish to debug and add breakpoints. Now, when you launch the react-native project, you should hit breakpoints in the extension code wrapper.
* To debug the debug adapter, open the extension in VS Code and run the `Debug debugger` launch target. This will start the debug adapter as a server rather than standalone process waiting for debug sessions to connect. Then inside a React Native project add `"debugServer": 4712` to the configuration in `launch.json` you will use to start debugging to get it to use the standalone instance. Notice that before debugging the adapter, you must ensure that `debugger/nodeDebugLocation.json` contains a `nodeDebugPath` entry which points to the location of the node debug adapter extension - to do so you could just run the extension normally and open a React Native project to generate this file.
## Testing
There is a set of mocha tests for the debug adapter which can be run with `npm test`, and a set of mocha tests for the other functionality run as part of the `test` launch config. Also run `gulp tslint` to check your code against our tslint rules.
See the project under test/testProjcet/ for a sample project that should build and compile, allow debugging of plugins and merges, and enable IntelliSense for plugins.
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## Sending a PR
Pull requests should:
* Include a clear description of the proposed change
* Be a child commit of a reasonably recent commit in the **master** branch
* Requests need not be a single commit, but should be a linear sequence of commits (i.e. no merge commits in your PR)
* Have clear commit messages
* e.g. "Refactor feature", "Fix issue", "Add tests for issue"
* Include adequate tests
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* Tests should include reasonable permutations of the target fix/change
