How to publish a extension on VSCODE by myself

Question

I use a extension on VSCODE Market, but i think that it does not meet my needs.I want to customize it.

But, i have been confused for publishing npm package to VSCODE market. Who can tell me more details?

I had been PHPER, i had been publishd some packages to Composer.

Answer 1

1. ready node environment, run cli: npm install -g vsce
2. ready publish resource,
3. open marketplace, sign in,
4. click navbar YOUR NAME link (recommend), or menubar 'Publish extensions' link button;
5. "create new organization", continue until done ...
6. click organization, click the User Settings icon to the left of the avatar,
7. click 'Personal access tokens',
8. 'new token',
   • name is your extension name (kebab case),
   • Organization must select All accessible organizations, otherwise throw "Error: Failed Request: Unauthorized(401)";
   • Scopes → Show all scopes → "Marketplace" select Acquire+Publish, create...
9. copy token, backup to file or print it,
10. In the command line window,
    • run vsce create-publisher YOUR-PUBLISH-NAME,
    • "human-friendly name", enter,
    • "E-mail" input YOUR-EMAIL, enter,
    • "Personal Access Token", click the right mouse button to paste automatically, there will be a series of asterisk placeholders, enter,
    • prompt "Successfully", run vsce publish -p YOUR-YOKEN,
    • prompt "Successfully", completed the entire commit operation.
11. the next update, change 'package.json' 'version' field, only need run vsce login YOUR-PUBLISH-NAME, paste 'token', and run vsce publish -p YOUR-YOKEN.

The token can be regenerated on the management platform, step 7.

3/16/2022

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1. remember YOUR-PUBLISH-NAME, YOUR-YOKEN.
2. VS Code: publish extension
3. vsce -h do more thing :)

Answer 2

The official site got you covered on publishing extensions, the whole process is very well documented here: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/extensions/publish-extension