Testing

[rictic]

Any advice on how to write an integration test of a ts plugin?

Currently considering using ttypescript, or just manually hooking up a typescript compiler using the API

[orta]

II'd probably try using the compiler API 👍🏻

[rictic]

I ended up going with just integration testing it inside of VS Code, which is working well, and gives assurance that the entire thing is working end to end. See runem/lit-analyzer#229 and runem/lit-analyzer#232

The only hacky part is that I haven't figured out a clean way to wait for the TS server to come online and begin responding to editor requests, and have resorted to polling until the results look right. Any ideas?

[rictic]

Update on that: in order to test that the plugin works after packaging, I've added a step to build a vsix file, unzip it outside of the repo dir, and then point @vscode/electron at that. This caught a tricky bug, where due to a dep erroneously being put into developmentDependencies, our plugin was working fine in development but would not boot after packaging. See: runem/lit-analyzer#233