Azure DevOps Web Extensions

Web extensions for Azure DevOps

Azure Pipeline Tasks

Use In Your YAML Pipeline

Ensure the extension is installed in your Azure DevOps instance

• Visit the Marketplace and install the extension.

Add the task to a build or release, or use it from YAML

steps:
- task: Boots@1
  displayName: Install Xamarin.Android
  inputs:
    uri: https://aka.ms/xamarin-android-commercial-d16-2-windows

Build and Test Locally

Dependencies

• Install Node.
• Install the TypeScript Compiler.
  • npm install -g typescript
• Install Mocha for testing.
  • npm install -g mocha
• Install tfx-cli for packaging.
  • npm install -g tfx-cli

Building

Open a terminal and navigate to the task directory you want to work on, and run the following commands.

• npm install
• tsc

Running

Once a task is built, you can run it with node.

• node boots.js

Testing

If tests exist, they can be ran with mocha.

• mocha Tests\suite.js

Packaging

Run the following to package the extension as a vsix.

• tfx extension create --manifest-globs Tasks\vss-extension.json