piral-vscode

The official VS Code extension for Piral.

Available in the following marketplaces:

• VS Code Marketplace for VS Code
• Open VSX for VSCodium, code-server and Eclipse Theia

Prerequisites

You'll need Node.js (v16+) with npm (v7+) installed for using the extension.

The extension works on all OS where VS Code is running.

Overview

This extension is a useful companion when developing Piral based app shells, or pilets for existing app shells.

It can be regarded as a visualizer for the piral-cli command line utility. However, our plan is to extend it with more functionality, usually tied very closely to the VS Code editing experience.

Features

Right now the following features are part of this extension:

• A workspace panel info with plugins, dependencies, versions, ...
• Additions to the command palette using useful commands (e.g., piral debug)
• A provider for .codegen files (essentially using JavaScript as language)
• A wizard for scaffolding new projects (Piral instances or pilets)
• Additional debugging utilities and tools
• Start, build, validate, ... run all commands without a command line

Workspace

When the extension detects a Piral instance or pilet folder opened it automatically fills some workspace information. The workspace info also contains links to documentation and helpful resources.

Tasks

You can add provided tasks for your Piral instances or pilets.

• piral: debug - a build (watch) task to debug the Piral instance
• piral: build - a build task to build the Piral instance
• piral: validate - a test task to validate the Piral instance
• piral: declaration - a build task to generate the declaration for the Piral instance
• pilet: debug - a build (watch) task to debug the pilet
• pilet: build - a build task to build the pilet
• pilet: validate - a test task to validate the pilet
• pilet: pack - a build task to pack the pilet

You can either run these tasks manually or use them, e.g., in a launch.json:

{
    "version": "0.2.0",
    "configurations": [
        {
            "type": "chrome",
            "request": "launch",
            "name": "Launch Chrome against localhost",
            "url": "http://localhost:1234",
            "webRoot": "${workspaceFolder}",
            "preLaunchTask": "pilet: debug"
        }
    ]
}

Problem Matcher

If you make your own task using the piral-cli you can use the $piral-cli-debug problem matcher to monitor the piral debug / pilet debug commands.

Command Palette

All commands that are relevant to Piral can be run from the command palette.

Scaffold Project Wizard

A new project can be scaffolded directly from VS Code. Right now two project types are supported.

Scaffold Piral Instance Wizard

When a Piral instance should be scaffolded additional information is requested. All options can be selected graphically.

Scaffold Pilet Wizard

When a pilet should be scaffolded additional information is requested. All options can be selected graphically.

Codegen Support

With this extension you'll get support for *.codegen files. This boils down to getting JS support associated with such files.

Development

Installation

Clone the repository and install the dependencies using npm:

npm i

Then open VS Code (code .) and run it using F5.

Publish

For publishing the official command line tool vsce should be used.

vsce package
vsce publish -p <token>

This will package the current version of the repository and publish it. Make sure to have the right token specified. Follow the instructions outlined here to get a new one.