Language Support for AWS CloudFormation Templates

Remy Willems

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Rich language support for AWS CloudFormation Templates
Installation
Launch VS Code Quick Open (Ctrl+P), paste the following command, and press enter.
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AWS CloudFormation Templates for Visual Studio Code

This extention adds rich language support for AWS CloudFormation Templates to Visual Studio Code. It works for both JSON and YAML templates, as long as the file extensions are respectively .cf.json or .cf.yaml.

Quick Start

  1. Install the extension
  2. Ensure that you have a version of the Java Runtime installed on your machine that is at least version 8.
  3. Open any .cf.json or .cf.yaml file in VS Code.

Language features

  • Autocompletion of symbols as you type
  • Go to or Peek Definition of symbols
  • Find References of symbols
  • Go to symbol in file or see the file outline
  • Symbol Rename
  • Inline errors

These features work even when there are syntactic or semantic errors in your file.

Configuring the JDK

This extension requires Java to run. It looks for the Java home directory in these locations:

  1. the java.home setting in VS Code settings (workspace then user settings)
  2. the JDK_HOME environment variable
  3. the JAVA_HOME environment variable
  4. on the current system path

Contributing

The best way to contribute to this extensions is to use it and file issues on the GitHub repository. Thank you! Also please rate the extension and leave honest feedback, I'll be sure to read it.