Making Vscode Extensions For Engineering Managers And Ctos

Personalize your company's VS Code environment with custom commands, menu items and code completion

What you'll learn

Develop personalized VS Code extensions

Add code completion snippets to VS Code

Create Menus and Submenus inside Visual Studio Code

Use the VS Code file system to create boilerplate

Requirements

Basic grasp of Javascript

Description

This course teaches how to maximize programmer productivity inside the Visual Studio Code Integrated Development Environment. This video series targets Engineering Managers, Chief Technology Officers (CTOs) and generally, people who manage software engineers. We aim to show the powerful IDE features extended through the VS Code API. Ultimately, we desire to enhance programmer productivity through the showcase of VS Code's extensive features.In this course, you shall :Learn to make Visual Studio Code Extensions with the JavaScript programming language. Become aware of common gotchas that disrupt the Visual Studio Code Extension making process.Navigate the Visual Studio Code API documentation and discover pre-written code samples offered in TypeScript.Grasp the anatomy of a VS Code extension and the different functions required to create a valid extensions.js file.Understand how to create a snippets.json file.Work with cursor positions, file names and placeholder variables to perform intelligent code completion.Display information notiffication boxes inside Visual Studio Code.Generate files with arbitrary names and file extensions programmatically using the in-built VS Code fs package. .Extend file creation to creating entire folders with nested structure.Create custom boilerplate generators with arbitrary text.Personalize your right-click menu to show company-specific commands.Customize the indices of different commands as each appears inside the context menu.Learn to add different sections to the Contributes portion of VS Code's package.json file

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Introduction

Lecture 2 Setting up VS Code

Lecture 3 NodeJS Installation

Lecture 4 VS Code Extension Documentation

Section 2: First Extension

Lecture 5 Hello World

Section 3: Snippets and Code Completion

Lecture 6 Snippets Introduction and Documentation

Lecture 7 Exploring Documentation and our 2nd Code snippet

Lecture 8 Implementing a complex snippet

Section 4: Creating Folders, Files and a Boilerplate Generator

Lecture 9 File System Documentation

Lecture 10 Files, Folder and Boilerplate

Section 5: Creating Custom Menus and Submenus

Lecture 11 Making menu contributions and Sub Menu contributions

Lecture 12 Moving Items to the Context Menu Top

Section 6: Sharing Private extensions and Distributing Public Extensions

Lecture 13 Publishing with VSCE and Handling Common Errors

Lecture 14 Bundling and Including 3rd-party Extensions

Lecture 15 Sharing Private Extensions

Engineering managers and CTOs aiming to maximize developer productivity