Coding guidelines

How to Contribute to CMake Tools

This article is for developers who want to contribute to the CMake Tools open source project.

Build the CMake Tools extension

As with most VS Code extensions, you'll need Node.JS installed. We use yarn to compile the code.

The process is:

1. Open the repo in VS Code

2. Press F5 to build and run the extension

Coding guidelines

Formatting

Code is formatted using clang-format. We recommend you install the Clang-Format extension.

Linting

We use eslint for linting our sources. You can run eslint across the sources from a terminal or command prompt by running yarn run lint. Warnings from eslint show up in the Errors and Warnings pane and you can navigate to them from inside VS Code. To lint the source as you make changes, install the eslint extension.

Style [Updated!]

Follow the Typescript Coding guidelines.

snake_case was used historically for variables in this repo, but that style is phased out. All new variables should be lowerCamelCase.