### Install Dependencies for Next Release - Bash

Source: https://github.com/typefox/vscode-messenger/blob/main/releasing.md

Installs project dependencies, running prepare steps like clean and build, required before preparing a next release.

```bash
npm install
```

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### Install Dependencies for Latest Release - Bash

Source: https://github.com/typefox/vscode-messenger/blob/main/releasing.md

Installs project dependencies, running prepare steps like clean and build, required before manually updating versions for a latest release.

```bash
npm install
```

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### Using vscode-messenger in a VS Code Extension (TypeScript)

Source: https://github.com/typefox/vscode-messenger/blob/main/README.md

This snippet demonstrates how to initialize the messenger in a VS Code extension, register webviews, handle incoming notifications and requests from webviews, and send messages back to webviews. It shows examples of defining message types and implementing handlers.

```typescript
const messenger = new Messenger();

// register one or more views
messenger.registerWebviewView(webviewView);


// Handle incoming view notification
const colorSelectType: NotificationType<string> = { method: 'colorSelected' };

messenger.onNotification(colorSelectType, (params: string) => {
    vscode.window.activeTextEditor?.insertSnippet(new vscode.SnippetString(`#${params}`));
});

// Handle view requests and return a result
const availableColorsType: RequestType<string, string[]> = { method: 'availableColor' };

messenger.onRequest(availableColorsType, (params: string) => {
    return ['020202', 'f1eeee', 'a85b20', 'daab70', 'efcb99'];
});

// Send a notification to a view of type 'calicoColors.colorsView'
const colorModifyType: NotificationType<string> = { method: 'colorModify' };

messenger.sendNotification(colorModifyType, {type: 'webview', webviewType: 'calicoColors.colorsView' }, 'clear');


// Send a request to a view of type 'calicoColors.colorsView' and get a result
const selectedColor = await messenger.sendRequest({ method: 'getSelectedColor' }, {type: 'webview', webviewType: 'calicoColors.colorsView' }, '');
```

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### Login to VS Code Marketplace - Bash

Source: https://github.com/typefox/vscode-messenger/blob/main/releasing.md

Logs into the VS Code marketplace publisher account (typefox) using vsce before publishing the extension.

```bash
vsce login typefox
```

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### Using vscode-messenger in a Webview (JavaScript)

Source: https://github.com/typefox/vscode-messenger/blob/main/README.md

This snippet shows how to initialize the messenger within a webview context, acquire the VS Code API, handle incoming notifications from the extension, and send requests to the extension. It demonstrates setting up a notification handler and sending a request to the host extension.

```javascript
const vscode = acquireVsCodeApi();
const vscode_messenger = require("vscode-messenger-webview");

const messenger = new vscode_messenger.Messenger(vscode);

// Handle extension Notifications. For requests use `onRequest()` 
messenger.onNotification({method: 'colorModify'}, (params) => {
    switch(params) {
        case 'add': {
            addColor();
            break;
        }
        case 'clear': {
            colors = [];
            updateColorList(colors);
            break;
        }
    }
});
messenger.start(); // start listening for incoming events

// Send a request to your extension.
// For notification use `sendNotification()`
 const colors = await messenger.sendRequest({ method: 'availableColors'}, HOST_EXTENSION, '');
 console.log(colors);
```

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### Publish Devtools Extension to Open VSX - Bash

Source: https://github.com/typefox/vscode-messenger/blob/main/releasing.md

Publishes the packaged devtools extension to the Open VSX marketplace using ovsx and a provided access token.

```bash
npx ovsx publish -p <open vsx access token>
```

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### Prepare Next Version - Bash

Source: https://github.com/typefox/vscode-messenger/blob/main/releasing.md

Updates package versions by adding a -next.<git-commit> suffix, preparing them for a next release.

```bash
npm run prepare-next
```

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### Publish Next Version - Bash

Source: https://github.com/typefox/vscode-messenger/blob/main/releasing.md

Publishes the prepared next version of the packages to NPM with the next tag.

```bash
npm run publish-next
```

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### Activating Extension and Exposing Diagnostic API (TypeScript)

Source: https://github.com/typefox/vscode-messenger/blob/main/packages/vscode-messenger-devtools/README.md

This snippet shows the basic structure of a VS Code extension's 'activate' function when using 'vscode-messenger'. It initializes the Messenger and returns its diagnostic API instance, which is required for the vscode-messenger devtools to inspect the extension's messaging.

```TypeScript
import * as vscode from 'vscode';
import { Messenger } from 'vscode-messenger';

const messenger = new Messenger();

export function activate(context: vscode.ExtensionContext) {
    // Your activation code...
    return messenger.diagnosticApi();
}
```

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### Package Devtools Extension - Bash

Source: https://github.com/typefox/vscode-messenger/blob/main/releasing.md

Changes directory to the devtools extension folder and packages the extension using vsce, excluding dependencies. This also triggers the vscode:prepublish script.

```bash
cd ../vscode-messenger-devtools
vsce package --no-dependencies
```

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### Publish Devtools Extension to VS Code Marketplace - Bash

Source: https://github.com/typefox/vscode-messenger/blob/main/releasing.md

Publishes the packaged devtools extension to the VS Code marketplace using vsce.

```bash
vsce publish
```

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### Publish Latest Version - Bash

Source: https://github.com/typefox/vscode-messenger/blob/main/releasing.md

Publishes the manually versioned packages to NPM with the latest tag.

```bash
npm run publish-latest
```

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