npm must be installed on your system. Get npm from here: Get npm
Make sure that you have installed the required tools:
npm install -g vsce
Here is an example transcript using the default npm and vsce to build VSCode-Wolfram:
npm install
vsce package
The result is a .vsix
file in the project directory.
You can install the built extension from command-line terminal in VsCode:
code --install-extension vsixFilePath