Editors for developing Fuchsia

Fuchsia recommends that you use an IDE (integrated development environment) to develop Fuchsia and to build software on Fuchsia. An IDE consolidates multiple tools in a single GUI to help you develop.

There are multiple ways to develop, but Fuchsia has developed multiple VS Code extensions.

VS Code

To get started with VS Code, install VS Code{: .external}.

Configuration

Once you have installed VS Code, you should configure the IDE. Depending on your development setup, consider the following guides:

• Configuring remote workspaces: This guide is recommended if you are developing on a virtual machine, container, or an environment with a running SSH server.
• Configuring file reloading: This guide is recommended if you are developing Fuchsia in the source tree. As Fuchsia has a large code base, you may want to exclude some directories from being watched for file changes.

Extensions

VS Code supports a large amount of extensions which can help you customize your IDE. Fuchsia has developed several extensions that are specific for developing the Fuchsia platform and for developing on Fuchsia with the SDK.

• Fuchsia developer: This extension integrates key ffx functionality into VS Code such as connecting, debugging, analyzing logs for Fuchsia devices, and functionality to help you edit and debug code as you develop for Fuchsia.
• Additional Fuchsia extensions: This guide lists additional Fuchsia extensions that may help you as you contribute to Fuchsia.