Hey folks, while learning all the SDK pieces, I've created a small vscode extension and example app which provides auto-completion based on vscode-lua and sets up the ability to compile and run your games.
Link <- Source code, extension file and example project using it
I'm curious, how does the autocompletion works exactly?
From a quick read of their source code, it looks like they loop through all Lua ASTs and create scopes full of tables or functions which can be attached to the object-likes used in Lua.
In the example project, I recommend passing in the entire SDK/CoreLibs folder to the language server as a set of libraries as a reference, the LSP collates all the usage of these particular types of objects. The side-effect is that Lua APIs which aren't referenced in the core libs will get missed - but it's a reasonable coverage of most APIs I explored from the examples folder
FWIW I could not figure out how to get code installed in my command line, so I installed your file using the Extensions panel triple-dot menu
And it was not obvious to me that the .vscode folder you reference in setup is a per-project folder.
But got it working now, thanks!
This is now available in the marketplace: Playdate - Visual Studio Marketplace
So, no need to the manual installation
Hello! =)
First of all, thanks for your contribution. I have been testing yout extension and it works well creating de myGame.pdx. However, it fails launching the PlaydateSimulator. VS show a message saying: "Failed to start simulator".
I don't know what causes this problem. Any suggestion please?
Thank you in advance.
You can copy building and running scripts from
There's also an instruction.
Thank you so much!
Finally your extension works for me. It is hard to admit it, but it was just and update of my Ubuntu haha
