vscode

Visual Studio Code Image

Docker Image: jcscottiii/vscode-gdec

Table of Contents

• Image Description
• Image Contents
• Running
• Usage
• Screenshots

Image Description

This image is the basis of the image to do barebone Go development. It does not setup any editors for Go.

Image Contents

TODO

Running

• Run the Docker container per your OS in the instructions here where your GDEC_IMAGE equals jcscottiii/vscode-gdec
• Once in the container, run this to start the IDE.
  • code &

Usage

Using Visual Studio Code

Debugger

When you run code ., it will start up the IDE at $GOPATH. You will begin to put your source code in $GOPATH/src. The picture above assumes you have package called test with a file called main.go in the src folder (i.e. $GOPATH/src/test/main.go). Press the green play button and a dropdown will appear, select Go, it will show launch.json. You will want to set the program field to src/test. If for some reason, you missed the Go option, delete your launch.json

Screenshots

Starting up visual studio code in the container

Follow the running instructions for your OS.

Editing Go file in Visual Studio Code

Creating a hello world app

Debugging Go file in Visual Studio Code

• Note: The screen capture tool is unable to show the breakpoints being set, but they are. You click to the left of the line numbers.