We have written a Yeoman generator to help get you started. We plan to add templates for most extension/customization types into this.

Install Yeoman and the VS Code Extension generator:

npm install -g yo generator-code

The Yeoman generator will walk you through the steps required to create your customization or extension prompting for the required information.

To launch the generator simply type:

yo code

These templates will

• Create a base folder structure
• Template out a rough package.json
• Import any assets required for your extension e.g. tmBundles or the VS Code Library
• For Extensions: Set-up launch.json for running your extension and attaching to a process

If you don't want to install nodejs or any node packages, use this method to containerize the generator.

Go into your project directory

cd <project directory>

Build the docker image from the docker file

docker build -t vscode-generator-code .

Create a docker container with volumes

docker run -v $(pwd):/usr/src/app vscode-generator-code

• 1.0.0: Generates a VS Code extension for TypeScript 2.0.3
• 0.10.x: Generates a VS Code extension for TypeScript 1.8.10

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