ServiceNow® Extension for VS Code

This extension helps you build applications on the Now Platform® using Visual Studio Code.

Create Project

Edit Files & Sync

Key Features

• Build applications: Supports development of different types of ServiceNow projects such as custom applications, stored applications
• Offline Development: Supports offline development and synchronize when connected
• Supports creating multiple projects in a workspace
• Provides the ability to create files from the extension
• Authentication: Supports basic, OAuth and MFA authentication types
• Rich Language support: Edit your code with code navigation, syntax highlighting, formatting and more
• Intellisense: Provides intelligent code-completion for Glide APIs, Jelly tags / attributes
• Code snippets for commonly used code patterns
• Linting: Get code analysis with ESLint (errors and warnings); JS / HTML / XML syntax validation
• Background Scripts: Ability to run background scripts in the desired scope
• Synchronization: Provides two-way synchronization of files between VS Code and the ServiceNow instance and a unified diff tool for viewing differences
• Ability to auto sync with the instance
• Enables update set selection to which the customizations must be tracked
• Find references for Tables, Script Includes.
• Discover and lookup definitions for Tables, Script Includes, Glide APIs.
• Utility commands
  • Compare file with the instance version using ‘Compare’ tool
  • Ability to view the XML of a file from the extension
  • Open a script file in platform
  • Preview files in instance
  • Copy sysid to clipboard
  • Revert file changes to instance version
• Quickly lookup, edit and sync any file on the instance using File Search
• Sync scratch files in bulk coupled with selective sync feature
• Supports addition of custom file types / tables to the project using Custom file types wizard

Getting Started

Before you get started with ServiceNow® Extension for VS Code, ensure that you have the following:

• ServiceNow® New York and above releases
• Node.js 8.0 and above
• Visual Studio Code v1.38 or later

Resources

• Documentation: You can find our documentation here
• FAQ: A list of frequently asked questions you may run into
• Questions & Feedback: If you have any questions or feedback, please drop us a note