The FIRST FRC robotics team I mentor uses VS Code. So I’m always comparing it to Eclipse. This meant that Loiane’s talk today on using it was useful. It was good to see how a professional developer is using VSCode. And how to set it up properly. It was also nice seeing it for stuff I use outside the FIRST robotics ecosystem (Spring, Tomcat, etc)

My notes from Loiane Groner’s talk – @Loiane

Install Visual Studio Code for Java – comes with JDK and extensions wan

tIf already have (or get from FIRST robotics and are using that package), Loiane uses these extensions:

• Java + Spring Extensions Back (by Microsoft)
• Spring Boot extension back
• Tomcat (or Jetty)
• SonarLint
• XML
• Lombok
• Checkstyle
• Docker

Other notes

• Can edit the JSON settings to point to multiple Java runtime for different versions.
• One is default.Java overview page – show each time, not just went new. This will show each time open a Java project and get major shortcuts/docs
• Demo of command pallet
• Views on left side – ex Java projects (shows all classes), Tomcat
• Remember to right click for menus
• Can open pom.xml, right click and add dependencies
• May be slow on load because analyzing project