Populate vscode specific configurations

[geiseri]

The devcontainer spec has a section that covers the support of VS Code specific properties. I am not sure how reasonable the customizations.vscode.settings are for the remote since those are stored in a local user session. (In the case of coder could be in a different volume). This might actually be a better issue for them to solve on that side then. If that is your opinion please feel free to close this issue and I will move it to the coder project.

[kylecarbs]

@geiseri if you have the VS Code Dev Containers extension do the customizations automatically install?

[aaronlehmann]

I've been using this snippet of code in the devcontainer startup script to install VS Code extensions specified in devcontainer.json. It's a pretty gross hack and you may well be able to come up with something better, but it might be useful as an example:

  if ! which code-server > /dev/null; then
    curl -fsSL https://code-server.dev/install.sh | sh | tee code-server-install.log
  fi
  CODE_CLI=code-server
  if code -v > /dev/null; then
    CODE_CLI=code
  fi
  mkdir -p ~/.vscode-server/extensions

  set +e
  extensions=( $(sed 's/\/\/.*$//g' */.devcontainer/devcontainer.json | jq -r -M '[.customizations.vscode.extensions[]?, .extensions[]?] | .[]' ) )
  if [ "$${extensions[0]}" != "" ] && [ "$${extensions[0]}" != "null" ]; then
    for extension in "$${extensions[@]}"; do
      $CODE_CLI --extensions-dir ~/.vscode-server/extensions --install-extension "$extension"
    done
  fi

[michaelbrewer]

Ended up doing something very similar, would be nice to have this built in

    curl -fsSL https://code-server.dev/install.sh | sh -s -- --method=standalone --prefix=/tmp/code-server --version 4.22.0

    CODE_CLI=/tmp/code-server/bin/code-server
    DEVCONTAINER_JSON=".devcontainer/devcontainer.json"
    if [[ -f "$DEVCONTAINER_JSON" ]]; then
        EXTENSIONS=$(sed '/^ *\/\//d' "$DEVCONTAINER_JSON" | jq -r '.customizations.vscode.extensions[]?')
        if [[ -n "$EXTENSIONS" ]]; then
            # Loop over each extension and install it
            for EXTENSION in $EXTENSIONS; do
                $CODE_CLI --install-extension $EXTENSION
            done
        fi
    fi

    $CODE_CLI --auth none --port 13337 >/tmp/code-server.log 2>&1 &

[matthieucan]

Thanks for providing those snippets, they are very helpful and indeed allow to automate the installation of extensions.

Note that other settings in customizations.vscode.settings would be great to have natively, next to customizations.vscode.extensions!