Alibaba Cloud CLI:Use the VS Code extension of Alibaba Cloud CLI

Prerequisites

Alibaba Cloud CLI is installed. For more information about how to install Alibaba Cloud CLI on different operating systems, see the following topics:

• Windows

• Linux

• macOS

Overview

The VS Code extension of Alibaba Cloud CLI is designed to improve the user experience of Alibaba Cloud CLI. The extension provides code files suffixed with .aliyun, and is similar to a command-line notepad. The extension provides the automatic code completion feature. When you compile code in an .aliyun file, the extension provides hints to automatically fill in partially typed commands, methods, and parameters. This greatly improves code compilation efficiency. After code compilation is complete, you can run the code on the terminal or in the editor with one click. You do not need to copy the code to another environment for execution.

The extension provides the following benefits:

Command line enhancement

• Highlights the syntaxes in *.aliyun code files.

• Provides CodeLens for Alibaba Cloud CLI commands to run in the editor.

• Allows you to run Alibaba Cloud CLI commands on the terminal with one click.

• Allows you to run Alibaba Cloud CLI commands in the editor with one click.

The following figure provides an example of command line enhancement.

Automatic code completion

• Provides hints to automatically fill in partially typed commands.

  The following figure provides an example of automatic command completion.

  

• Provides hints to automatically fill in partially typed methods.

  The following figure provides an example of automatic method completion.

  

• Provides hints to automatically fill in partially typed parameters.

  The following figure provides an example of automatic parameter completion.

  

CLI configuration management

• Allows you to switch between different configuration credentials to use Alibaba Cloud CLI.