Setting up Visual Studio Code

Developing for Lime CRM can be done with any editor you would like, but using Visual Studio Code will give you a very integrated experience. In this section we will recommend some extensions and configuration to Visual Studio Code.

Install

Visual Studio Code comes with a lot of useful features, such as:

• built-in terminal,
• built-in Git support
• IntelliSense, which helps with autocompletion of code as well as information on the parameters of functions and known variable names.
• Very good Python and Typescript language support
• Built-in debugger for Python and Typescript

Recommended Extensions

Open the "Extensions" in VS Code and install the following extensions:

1. ms-python.python
2. eamodio.gitlens
3. esbenp.prettier-vscode
4. editorconfig.editorconfig

Restart VS Code after you've installed the extensions.

Configure Visual Studio Code for Python

• Install the Python extension from "Extensions" by opening the command palette and type "Install Extensions"
• Search and install extension ms-python.python by Microsoft
• Open the settings file by opening the command palette and type "Open User Settings (JSON)"

• Add the following settings to User Settings within the curly brackets:

  "[python]": {
      "editor.rulers": [79, 88]
  },
  "python.linting.pylintEnabled": false,
  "python.linting.flake8Enabled": true,
  "flake8.importStrategy": "fromEnvironment",
  

• Restart VS Code