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 Marketplace" in VS Code and install the following extensions:

1. ms-python.python
2. eamodio.gitlens
3. esbenp.prettier-vscode
4. ms-vscode.vscode-typescript-tslint-package

Restart VS Code after you've installed the extensions.

Configure Visual Studio Code for Python

• Install the Python extension by opening the command palette and type "Install Extensions"

• Search for "Python" and install the one by Microsoft

• Open the command palette and type "Open User Settings"

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

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

• Restart VS Code