Contributing Guide

Want to contribute to Rax VS Code Extensions? There are a few things you need to know.

Development Workflow

After cloning project, run npm install to fetch its dependencies.
Run npm run setup link and bootstrap project before development.

Then, you can run several commands:

• npm run lint checks the code style.
• npm test runs the complete test suite.

VS Code extension development

You can add the VS Code Extension of Rax to the directory extension.

1. Initialization

Install Yeoman and VS Code Extension Generator：

npm install -g yo generator-code

In the extensions/ Directory, execute yo code to initialize the extension

yo code

2. Development and Debugging

Document：https://code.visualstudio.com/api

Use the VS Code to develop the extension project, and enable extension debugging through F5.

3. Packaging Extension

First you need to use vsce.

npm i vsce -g

Run vsce package, package it into vsix and send it to others for installation;

4. Publish Extension

Add "publisher": "Rax" into your extension package.json:

{
  "publisher": "Rax"
}

When your PR has been merged, It will be auto published to VS Code Extension Marketplace.