Visual Studio Code: Difference between revisions

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Updating extension versions: better way to run the script
m Mentioned nix4vscode as an alternative to nix-vscode-extensions
 
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Note: For fetching the sha256 string you can use the following command. Make sure to replace the author, the package name and version!<syntaxhighlight lang="bash">
Note: For fetching the sha256 string you can use the following command. Make sure to replace the author, the package name and version!<syntaxhighlight lang="bash">
nix-prefetch-url https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/_apis/public/gallery/publishers/ms-vscode-remote/vsextensions/remote-ssh-edit/0.47.2/vspackage  
nix-prefetch-url https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/_apis/public/gallery/publishers/ms-vscode-remote/vsextensions/remote-ssh-edit/0.47.2/vspackage  
</syntaxhighlight>{{ic|extensionsFromVscodeMarketplace}} is a manual way to fetch extensions. However, to keep updated from upstream, [https://github.com/nix-community/nix-vscode-extensions nix-community/nix-vscode-extensions] provides the Nix expressions for the majority of available extensions from Open VSX and VSCode Marketplace. A GitHub Action updates the extensions daily.
</syntaxhighlight>{{ic|extensionsFromVscodeMarketplace}} is a manual way to fetch extensions. However, to keep updated from upstream, [https://github.com/nix-community/nix-vscode-extensions nix-community/nix-vscode-extensions] provides the Nix expressions for the majority of available extensions from Open VSX and VSCode Marketplace. A GitHub Action updates the extensions daily. Similarly, [https://github.com/nix-community/nix4vscode nix-community/nix4vscode] provides a Nix overlay for VSCode Marketplace and Open VSX extensions.


It's also possible to install VS Code via [[Home Manager]]:
It's also possible to install VS Code via [[Home Manager]]: