Codewind for VS Code

Create and develop cloud-native, containerized web applications from VS Code.

Installing Codewind

Prerequisites

• Install VS Code.
• Install Docker.
• If you use Linux, you also need to install Docker Compose.

Complete the installation:

1. Find Codewind for VS Code in the VS Code Marketplace or by searching for Codewind in the VS Code Extensions view.
2. Go to the Explorer view group and open the Codewind view.
3. Click Install whem prompted. The download is approximately 1 GB.

Using Codewind for VS Code

To see the actions available, open the Command Palette and type Codewind.

Features:

• Create new projects from application templates or import existing Docker-ready projects.
• View Codewind projects, including application and build statuses.
• Debug Microprofile, Spring, and Node.js projects in their Docker containers.
• View application and build logs in the VS Code Output view.
• View and edit project deployment information.
• Open a shell session into a Codewind application container.
• Toggle project auto build and manually initiate project builds.
• Disable, enable, and delete projects.

Contributing

Submit issues and contributions:

• Submitting issues
• Contributing
• To host the extension yourself so you can develop or debug it, clone this repository and run the Extension launch in dev/.vscode/launch.json. See Developing Extensions for more information.
• You can also build the extension .vsix yourself by running vsce package from dev/. Refer to the ci-scripts to see the exact steps the build runs.