Welcome to your VS Code Extension

What's in the folder

This folder contains all of the files necessary for your extension.
package.json - this is the manifest file in which you declare your extension and command.
- The sample plugin registers a command and defines its title and command name. With this information VS Code can show the command in the command palette. It doesn’t yet need to load the plugin.
src/extension.ts - this is the main file where you will provide the implementation of your command.
- The file exports one function, activate, which is called the very first time your extension is activated (in this case by executing the command). Inside the activate function we call registeBaseCommand.
- We pass the function containing the implementation of the command as the second parameter to registeBaseCommand.
syntaxes/resjson.tmLanguage - this is the Text mate grammar file that is used for tokenization.
language-configuration.json - this is the language configuration, defining the tokens that are used for comments and brackets.

Make sure the language configuration settings in language-configuration.json are accurate.
Press F5 to open a new window with your extension loaded.
Run your command from the command palette by pressing (Ctrl+Shift+P or Cmd+Shift+P on Mac) and typing Hello World.
Set breakpoints in your code inside src/extension.ts to debug your extension.
Find output from your extension in the debug console.
Create a new file with a file name suffix matching your language.
Verify that syntax highlighting works and that the language configuration settings are working.

You can relaunch the extension from the debug toolbar after making changes to the files listed above.
You can also reload (Ctrl+R or Cmd+R on Mac) the VS Code window with your extension to load your changes.

You can open the full set of our API when you open the file node_modules/@types/vscode/index.d.ts.

To add features such as intellisense, hovers and validators check out the VS Code extenders documentation at https://code.visualstudio.com/docs

To start using your extension with Visual Studio Code copy it into the <user home>/.vscode/extensions folder and restart Code.
To share your extension with the world, read on https://code.visualstudio.com/docs about publishing an extension.

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.

Reduce the extension size and improve the startup time by bundling your extension.
Publish your extension on the VSCode extension marketplace.
Automate builds by setting up Continuous Integration.