foam-extension-dev-quickstart.md

Foam Extension Development Quick Start Guide

For OSX, tested on my computer on a monday. YMMV. I started without any node/etc installed.

I never got NVM to work for node versioning, so I defaulted to just using brew node:

	brew install node

And then install yarn and lerna globally:

	npm install -g npm@8.19.3
	npm install -g yarn
	npm install -g lerna

Then open the foam repo in vscode

	cd foam
	code .

Then install the build requirements

• Tasks: Run Task
• npm
• npm: install

Then package the extension

• Tasks: Run Task
• npm
• npm: package-extension
• Continue without scanning the task output
• (Optionally accept installs/etc in the terminal to continue)

Then install the packaged extension

• Tasks: Run Task
• npm
• npm: install-extension
• Continue without scanning the task output

Now it should be installed in vscode.