vscode-extension-samples/extension-samples-quickstart.md

Welcome to the extension samples

What's here

• These folders contain sample VS Code extensions that demonstrate various extension APIs.

Get up and running straight away

• Launch npm install in terminal in the root folder to initialize all samples
• Open the debug view and select the sample to launch
• set breakpoints inside a sample's extension.ts to debug an extension
• find output from your extension in the debug console

Make changes

• you can relaunch a sample from the debug toolbar after changing code in 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/vscode/vscode.d.ts in each sample