Visual Studio Code Spring

This extension for Visual Studio Code adds useful snippets for Spring Boot. These are especially useful for creating REST apis, and configuring database connection properties.

Usage

For a detailed walkthrough, please use this youtube video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qI7hTw8aMaU

Type part of a snippet, press enter, and the snippet unfolds.

Alternatively, press Ctrl+Space (Windows, Linux) or Cmd+Space (macOS) to activate snippets from within the editor.

Java Snippets

Snippet	Purpose
`spring-crudctrl`	Spring controller with CRUD actions implemented
`spring-crudrepo`	Spring Data JPA CRUD repository with REST api annotation
`spring-jparepo`	Spring Data JPA repository with REST api annotation
`spring-entity`	JPA entity with ID field
`spring-lombok-entity`	JPA entity with ID field and Lombok `@Data` annotation
`spring-ctrl-getall`	Controller GET action for collection
`spring-ctrl-getone`	Controller GET action for single item
`spring-ctrl-post`	Controller POST action
`spring-ctrl-put`	Controller PUT action
`spring-ctrl-delete`	Controller DELETE action

application.properties / application.yaml Snippets

Snippet	Purpose
`spring-sqlite`	SQLite database jdbc url and properties
`spring-sqlserver`	SQL Server database jdbc url and properties
`spring-oracle`	Oracle database jdbc url and properties
`spring-postgresql`	PostgreSQL database jdbc url and properties
`spring-mysql`	MySQL database jdbc url and properties
`spring-h2`	H2 database jdbc url and properties

Installation

Install Visual Studio Code 1.44.0 or higher
Launch Code
From the command palette Ctrl-Shift-P (Windows, Linux) or Cmd-Shift-P (OSX)
Select Install Extension
Choose the extension
Reload Visual Studio Code

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Visual Studio Code, along with the Remote - WSL extension, enables you to use WSL as your full-time development environment directly from VS Code. You can:

develop in a Linux-based environment
use Linux-specific toolchains and utilities
run and debug your Linux-based applications from the comfort of Windows while maintaining access to productivity tools like Outlook and Office
use the VS Code built-in terminal to run your Linux distribution of choice
take advantage of VS Code features like Intellisense code completion, linting, debug support, code snippets, and unit testing
easily manage your version control with VS Code's built-in Git support
run commands and VS Code extensions directly on your WSL projects
edit files in your Linux or mounted Windows filesystem (for example /mnt/c) without worrying about pathing issues, binary compatibility, or other cross-OS challenges

Install VS Code and the Remote WSL extension

Visit the VS Code install page and select the 32 or 64 bit installer. Install Visual Studio Code on Windows (not in your WSL file system).
When prompted to Select Additional Tasks during installation, be sure to check the Add to PATH option so you can easily open a folder in WSL using the code command.
Install the Remote Development extension pack. This extension pack includes the Remote - WSL extension, in addition to the Remote - SSH, and Remote - Containers extensions, enabling you to open any folder in a container, on a remote machine, or in WSL.

Important

In order to install the Remote-WSL extension, you will need the 1.35 May release version or later of VS Code. We do not recommend using WSL in VS Code without the Remote-WSL extension as you will lose support for auto-complete, debugging, linting, etc. Fun fact: this WSL extension is installed in $HOME/.vscode/extensions (enter the command ls $HOME.vscodeextensions in PowerShell).

Update your Linux distribution

Some WSL Linux distributions are lacking libraries that are required by the VS Code server to start up. You can add additional libraries into your Linux distribution by using its package manager.

For example, to update Debian or Ubuntu, use:

To add wget (to retrieve content from web servers) and ca-certificates (to allow SSL-based applications to check for the authenticity of SSL connections), enter:

Open a WSL project in Visual Studio Code

From the command-line

To open a project from your WSL distribution, open the distribution's command line and enter: code .

From VS Code

You can also access more VS Code Remote options by using the shortcut: CTRL+SHIFT+P in VS Code to bring up the command palette. If you then type Remote-WSL you will see a list of the VS Code Remote options available, allowing you to reopen the folder in a remote session, specify which distribution you want to open in, and more.

Extensions inside of VS Code Remote

The Remote-WSL extension splits VS Code into a “client-server” architecture, with the client (the user interface) running on your Windows machine and the server (your code, Git, plugins, etc) running remotely.

When running VS Code Remote, selecting the 'Extensions' tab will display a list of extensions split between your local machine and your WSL distribution.

Installing a local extension, like a theme, only needs to be installed once.

Some extensions, like the Python extension or anything that handles things like linting or debugging, must be installed separately on each remote WSL distributions. VS Code will display a warning icon ⚠, along with a green 'Install in WSL' button, if you have an extension locally installed that is not installed on your WSL Remote.

For further information, see the VS Code docs:

When VS Code Remote is started in WSL, no shell startup scripts are run. See this advanced environment setup script article for more info on how to run additional commands or modify the environment.
Having problems launching VS Code from your WSL command line? This troubleshooting guide includes tips on changing path variables, resolving extension errors about missing dependencies, resolving Git line ending issues, installing a local VSIX on a remote machine, launching a browser window, blocker localhost port, web sockets not working, errors storing extension data, and more.

Install Git (optional)

If you plan to collaborate with others, or host your project on an open-source site (like GitHub), VS Code supports version control with Git. The Source Control tab in VS Code tracks all of your changes and has common Git commands (add, commit, push, pull) built right into the UI.

To install Git, see set up Git to work with Windows Subsystem for Linux.

Install Windows Terminal (optional)

The new Windows Terminal enables multiple tabs (quickly switch between Command Prompt, PowerShell, or multiple Linux distributions), custom key bindings (create your own shortcut keys for opening or closing tabs, copy+paste, etc.), emojis ☺, and custom themes (color schemes, font styles and sizes, background image/blur/transparency). Learn more in the Windows Terminal docs.

Get Windows Terminal in the Microsoft Store: By installing via the store, updates are handled automatically.
Once installed, open Windows Terminal and select Settings to customize your terminal using the profile.json file.

Additional Resources

A few additional extensions you may want to consider include:

Visual Studio Code Spring Boot

Keymaps from other editors: These extensions can help your environment feel right at home if you're transitioning from another text editor (like Atom, Sublime, Vim, eMacs, Notepad++, etc).
Settings Sync: Enables you to synchronize your VS Code settings across different installations using GitHub. If you work on different machines, this helps keep your environment consistent across them.
Debugger for Chrome: Once you finish developing on the server side with Linux, you'll need to develop and test the client side. This extension integrates your VS Code editor with your Chrome browser debugging service, making things a bit more efficient.