GitHub Action You Need to Publish VS Code Extensions

• vscode-marquee

  4 95 5.9 TypeScript

  💡 The missing VS Code homescreen that helps you to stay organized with minimal context switches

  

The term continuous integration and continuous delivery (short CI/CD) is a common best practice for software developers, including the ones building VS Code extensions. With the VS Code update from last November users have now access to pre-releases that allow developers to ship regular updates and offer testing out the latest cutting edge features from their extension to receive early feedback. In this blog post we’d like to share how Stateful releases its Marquee extension to the VS Code Marketplace and OpenVSX Registry through GitHub Actions. You can find a full example in the Marquee repository, feel free to copy and adapt it for your own extension.

• vscode-vsce

  3 748 7.4 TypeScript

  VS Code Extension Manager

  

Lastly we will package and publish our extension using the Visual Studio Code Extension Manager and a GitHub Action called HaaLeo/publish-vscode-extension. The advantage of having the packaging and publishing step separated is that we can attach the compiled .vsix file as an artifact to the workflow and offer it as download. Make sure to generate a token (named in the workflow as VSC_MKTP_PAT and OPEN_VSX_TOKEN) to allow GitHub to publish your extension.

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• publish-vscode-extension

  3 192 7.1 TypeScript

  GitHub action to publish your VS Code Extension to the Open VSX Registry or Visual Studio Marketplace.

Lastly we will package and publish our extension using the Visual Studio Code Extension Manager and a GitHub Action called HaaLeo/publish-vscode-extension. The advantage of having the packaging and publishing step separated is that we can attach the compiled .vsix file as an artifact to the workflow and offer it as download. Make sure to generate a token (named in the workflow as VSC_MKTP_PAT and OPEN_VSX_TOKEN) to allow GitHub to publish your extension.

• release-action

  4 1,223 8.0 TypeScript

  An action which manages a github release

To conclude our release workflow we push our release commit and the new git tag back to GitHub, as well as attach the compiled extension file to the workflow using the ncipollo/release-action GitHub Action. This is intentionally done at the end of the workflow so that in case something went wrong during the process we don’t mark it as a new release:

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