Configuring Visual Studio code for Ethereum Blockchain development
This post was originally published by David Burela on his blog Burela's House-o-blog. Big thanks to David for allowing us publish it here!
Visual Studio code is a great tool for editing Solidity smart contracts, and is available on Windows, Mac & Linux. There is a great plugin that enables Syntax highlighting, snippets, and compiling of the current contract (if you aren’t using an external tool) https://github.com/juanfranblanco/vscode-solidity/
This configuration works really well with Truffle (as shown in the final screenshot). You can read how to install Truffle on Windows in my previous post.
Step 1: Install Visual Studio code
https://code.visualstudio.com/
Easy option on Windows: Just install via https://chocolatey.org/ by using the command
choco install VisualstudioCode –y
Step 2: Install Visual Studio extensions
Go into the extensions section, then install these plugins:
- Solidity
- Material Icon Theme
Step 3: Enable icon theme
Select File –> Preferences –> File Icon Theme.
Final result: Sexy workspace
