Release of VS Code Addon Manager

[carsakiller]

New in version 3.6.15 of the VS Code extension is the addon manager! 🎉

Note
The addon manager requires you to have Git installed in order to function.

It can be opened by using Ctrl + P to open the command palette and running the Open Addon Manager (lua.addon_manager.open) command.

Summary

The addon manager allows you to enable, disable, and uninstall addons for the language server. This means you can now easily install definitions for libraries and automatically apply settings to better emulate an environment.

Warning
While each addon added to LLS-Addons will be reviewed, it is possible for an addon to modify any VS Code setting using its config.json. This offers great freedom but is also potentially abusable. Pressing the GitHub button will open the addon, allowing you to review it yourself if you'd like to double-check 🕵️‍♂️

Contributing Addons

The addon manager pulls from the LLS-Addons repository and currently contains many of the definitions from the language server. If you would like to contribute an addon, head over to the LLS-Addons README to learn more. They are very similar to the environment emulations (now Addons) that have been in use for a while, but add a little more configuration and are currently missing plugin support.

WebVue UI

The addon manager is a webview (basically an iframe) that allows us to display a custom webpage within VS Code. You can check out the code for the webview UI in the vscode-lua-webvue repository. It uses Vue.js and some VS Code components and styling to try to make it feel as at-home as possible.

Feedback

The addon manager has been a while in the making, so I'm excited to finally merge it in. If you have any feedback, please leave it in the VS Code extension repository ❤️.

[Demonese]

amazing!