This is my custom VSCode extension template. Mainly used to illustrate my blog post about aliases actually.

1. Clone the repo
2. Do git remote remove origin
3. Find all occurenses of templaet in the project and replace them with your extension name

You're good to go!

Aliases are configure in tsconfig.json. There are 2 sample aliases.

To use aliasing in another extension you need to do the following:

1. Migrate the following code from webpack config:

const tsconfigContent = require('./tsconfig.json');

const alias = {}
Object.entries(tsconfigContent.compilerOptions.paths).forEach(([aliasName, [ aliasContent ]]) => {
  const name = aliasName.replace('/*', '');
  const aliasPath = path.resolve(root, 'out', aliasContent.replace('/*', ''));
  alias[name] = aliasPath;
})

2. Move alias.ts to your test folder
3. Migrate the following code from runTest.ts

import './alias';
import 'module-alias/register';

4. Install module-alias package

I have a restriction on the VSCode version I can use at work, so I create my extensions with respect to that. For this template it means I have a code that makes sure I run test against a speciic version instead of the latest stable.

The version under test is specified in package.json in engines.vscode.

To remove this functionality simply change thfollowing line in runTest.ts:

await runTests({ extensionDevelopmentPath, extensionTestsPath, version });

to

await runTests({ extensionDevelopmentPath, extensionTestsPath });