Django extension for Visual Studio Code

Beautiful syntax and scoped snippets for perfectionists with deadlines

Features

Go to definition in templates

Ctrl+click (cmd+click on MacOS) or press F12 on the template path in a include or extends tag to jump to this template

Snippets

Support for selected text (when inserting snippet from the menu)
Support for copied text
No unnecessary new lines

Improved syntax

Adds the filetype django-html
Adds the filetype django-txt for email templates.
Better syntax with more operators and default keywords:
- Known default tags and filters
- Known templatetags namespace from contrib in the {% load %} tag
- Known keywords in tags, like: as, asvar, with, trimmed…
Syntax highlighting everywhere in your HTML document:
- In the HTML tag itself"
- In the id, class or any attribute
- In inline CSS or Javascript code

Tricks

Gettext and internationalization

Dealing with django.po files? Consider installing the Gettext extension by MrOrz.

Emmet

Add the following item to the Emmet: Include Languages settings:

Item	Value
`django-html`	`html`

Contributing

Issues

Something odd? New feature request? Please create an issue on Github.

Setup

git clone https://github.com/vscode-django/vscode-django
cd vscode-django
npm install
code .

It’s better to have TSlint installed.

Launching the extension debugger

Make sure you have this snippet in .vscode/launch.json:

{
  "version": "0.2.0",
  "configurations": [
    {
      "name": "Extension",
      "type": "extensionHost",
      "request": "launch",
      "runtimeExecutable": "${execPath}",
      "args": [
        "--extensionDevelopmentPath=${workspaceFolder}"
      ]
    }
  ]
}

Press F5 or click on Debug then Start (▶️) to launch the extension host window.

Hack around

Press Ctrl + Shift + F5 or 🔄 to reload.

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