Development

pw_ide: Code editor and IDE support for Pigweed projects

The Visual Studio Code extension is developed in the main Pigweed repository. If you want to contribute to the extension, the first step is to become a Pigweed contributor.

Working with the code

When working on the Visual Studio Code extension, it’s more effective to open the extension’s root directory instead of opening the repository root. That directory is: <repo root>/pw_ide/ts/pigweed-vscode

If you’re using Visual Studio Code to write code for the Visual Studio Code extension, install any extensions that are recommended to you when you open the directory.

Building the extension

Start by installing the dependencies: npm install

Then the most effective way to work is to run the Run Extension launch configuration. This will start a build watcher that will continuously build and bundle the extension, and will launch a new Visual Studio Code instance with the current build of the extension.

Note

You need to have the TypeScript + Webpack Problem Matchers extension installed for the above to work.

Packaging the extension

It’s one command: npm run package