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Welcome to your VS Code Extension

Get up and running straight away

  • Press F5 to open a new window with your extension loaded.
  • Set breakpoints in your code inside src/extension.ts to debug your extension.
  • Find output from your extension in the debug console.
  • Run Parcel in a project with --reporter @parcel/reporter-lsp

Make changes

  • You can relaunch the extension from the debug toolbar after changing code in src/extension.ts.
  • You can also reload (Ctrl+R or Cmd+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/@types/vscode/index.d.ts.

Run tests

  • Open the debug viewlet (Ctrl+Shift+D or Cmd+Shift+D on Mac) and from the launch configuration dropdown pick Extension 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 the test/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.

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