IDE

To share the developer experience, we share our standard IDE environment. These IDE environment is recommended but not required to develop the AILERON Projects.

IDE

Most of the maintainers use Visual Studio Code.

See

• Go Developer Survey 2024 H2 Results
• Go Developer Survey 2024 H1 Results

Following section describes recommended VSCode plugins.

BASIC

Go

Go is the official Go plugin for VSCode. Almost all Go developers using VSCode install this plugin.

Go Test Explorer or Go Test Explorer

Go Test Explorer or Go Test Explorer supports Go testing. These plugins are not required but highly recommended.

RECOMMENDED

markdownlint

Many AILERON projects run markdownlint on CICD pipeline. It will be run on pipelines but recommended to run locally before pushing changes. So, use markdownlint plugin.

Code Spell Checker

Some AILERON projects run cSpell on CICD pipeline. It will be run on pipelines but recommended to run locally before pushing changes. So, use Code Spell Checker plugin. It helps you to find misspellings.

OPTIONAL

Error Lens

Error Lens highlights the entire line wherever a diagnostic is generated by the language and also prints the message inline.

Error Gutters

Error Gutters put gutters to the right from the line of code, containing any diagnostic issue.

indent-rainbow

indent-rainbow colorizes the indentation.

Trailing Spaces

Trailing Spaces highlight trailing spaces.