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Continue VS Code Extension

This is the Continue VS Code Extension. Its primary jobs are

  1. Implement the IDE side of the Continue IDE protocol, allowing a Continue server to interact natively in an IDE. This happens in src/continueIdeClient.ts.
  2. Open the Continue React app in a side panel. The React app's source code lives in the react-app directory. The panel is opened by the continue.openContinueGUI command, as defined in src/commands.ts.
  3. Run a Continue server in the background, which connects to both the IDE protocol and the React app. The server is launched in src/activation/environmentSetup.ts by calling Python code that lives in server/ (unless extension settings define a server URL other than localhost:65432, in which case the extension will just connect to that).

How to debug the VS Code Extension

  1. Clone the Continue repo

  2. Open a VS Code window with the continue directory as your workspace

  3. Package and then start the FastAPI server by following instructions outlined in the Continue Server section of the continuedev/README.md

  4. Open a VS Code window with the extension directory as your workspace

  5. Run npm run package

  6. Open src/activation/activate.ts file (or any TypeScript file)

  7. Press F5 on your keyboard to start Run and Debug mode

  8. cmd+shift+p to look at developer console and select Continue commands

  9. Every time you make changes to the code, you need to run npm run esbuild unless you make changes inside of react-app and then you need to run npm run build from there

Notes

  • We require vscode engine ^1.67.0 and use @types/vscode version 1.67.0 because this is the earliest version that doesn't break any of the APIs we are using. If you go back to 1.66.0, then it will break vscode.window.tabGroups.