I am trying to get started with Pigweed and need the associated Pigweed extension in VSCode to start development.

Link to extension in marketplace: .pigweed&ssr=false#overview

I have tried searching using both "pigweed" and "pigweed.pigweed", but neither appear in the marketplace search. I also have it in my extensions.json file under "recommendations", but that doesn't trigger VSCode to ever recommend it to me.

My code version is 1.98.2 and I am using it through code-server

I am trying to get started with Pigweed and need the associated Pigweed extension in VSCode to start development.

Link to extension in marketplace: https://marketplace.visualstudio/items?itemName=pigweed.pigweed&ssr=false#overview

I have tried searching using both "pigweed" and "pigweed.pigweed", but neither appear in the marketplace search. I also have it in my extensions.json file under "recommendations", but that doesn't trigger VSCode to ever recommend it to me.

My code version is 1.98.2 and I am using it through code-server

• vscode-extensions
• code-server
• pigweed

1 Answer 1

By default, code-server uses the Open VSX marketplace for extensions, due to Microsoft's VS Marketplace Terms of Use (PDF) barring its use outside of Visual Studio products. As VSCodium (and therefore code-server) is not a Visual Studio product, it's not permitted to use VS Marketplace. And, as the Pigweed extension is not currently published on Open VSX, it makes sense that you can't see it in code-server by default.

There are a few ways around this:

• Ask the Pigweed extension developers to publish the extension on Open VSX
• Obtain a copy of the Pigweed extension .vsix file by building it yourself or manually downloading it from VS Marketplace (which Microsoft makes difficult to do), then install it through the Extensions menu in code-server
• Change code-server's configuration to use VS Marketplace for extensions (with the caveat that this violates Microsoft's Terms of Use). Here is a related GitHub issue that discusses how this can be done