Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) is a powerful and lightweight code editor with a rich extensibility model. VS Code extensions let you add languages, debuggers, and tools to your installation to support your development workflow.
Install the DolphinDB Extension for VS Code to add the DolphinDB scripting language in VS Code, which enables you to write and execute scripts in VS Code to operate the DolphinDB database and access its data.
Features
Code highlighting
Code completion for keywords, constants, built-in functions
Documentation and parameter hints for built-in functions
Displays code execution results and print() output in the integrated terminal
Displays running script status in bottom status bar with option to click to cancel
Displays data structures like tables, vectors, matrices in browser pop-up windows
Displays connections, databases and session variables in the sidebar
Displays tables, vectors, and matrices in browser pop-up windows
Exports DolphinDB tables to disk (.csv file)
Use
For information on how to use this extension, see official documentation at the DolphinDB website.
Development
# Install the latest version of nodejs
# https://nodejs.org/en/download/current/
# Install the pnpm package manager
corepack enable
corepack prepare pnpm@latest --activate
git clone https://github.com/dolphindb/vscode-extension.git
cd vscode-extension
# Install project dependencies
pnpm install
# copy .vscode/settings.template.json to .vscode/settings.json
cp .vscode/settings.template.json .vscode/settings.json
# Refer to scripts in package.json
# Build the development version
pnpm run dev
# Switch to the debug panel in VSCode and start the ddb.ext debugging task (you need to disable or uninstall the installed dolphindb plugin first)
