jcscottiii/vscode-gdec repository overview

⁠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

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⁠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.