Setting up for local development

We recommend using Visual Studio Code ↗ for local development to get the best out of box development experience with Astroship. Formatting, linting, completions and recommended extensions are all configured. You’re of course welcome to use another editor if preferred.

Install recommended extensions

These extensions enable support for autoformatting, linting, and completions for your code and everything included in Astroship.

1. Start by following Quick start before setting up your local development environment.
2. Launch Visual Studio Code and open the project folder.
3. Install the recommended extensions when prompted.

Don’t see the prompt?

1. Click the Extensions view icon in the Activity Bar on the side of the window.
2. Search for @recommended
3. Tap the install recommended icon next to Workspace Recommendations.

Run development server in VSCode

We recommend running your development server inside of Visual Studio Code for easy debugging.

Start the development server by choosing Run → Start Debugging from the file menu. If needed, you can stop the development server by choosing Run → Stop Debugging from the file menu.

Debugging errors

If you run into errors, you can ⌘ + Click on an error message to jump to the file and line number where the error occurred and set a breakpoint to see the state of your application at that point.