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Developer guide

Prerequisites:

  1. Install node
  2. Install yarn: npm install -g yarn

After you clone the repo, install the dependencies with yarn:

yarn install

Running the extension locally

To run and debug the extension locally, open the extension in vscode and press F5.

To debug the webviews in the extension host, run ctrl+shift+i to open the dev tools.

Running the extension in the browser

To run the extension in the browser, run:

yarn run-in-browser

Creating a vsix file

To create a vsix file, first install vsce:

npm install -g @vscode/vsce

Then use vsce to package the vsix

vsce package

Linking pxt-mkc

If you want to develop using your local clone of pxt-mkc, you need to link the makecode-core and makecode-browser packages.

cd pxt-mkc/packages/makecode-core
yarn link
cd ../makecode-browser
yarn link
cd ../../vscode-makecode
yarn link makecode-core makecode-browser

Make sure you run yarn compile inside of makecode-core and makecode-browser to build the packages!