How can I install the VS Code extension on WSL?

[michaelschufi]

Hi 👋

I've followed the README and finally ran hereby install-extension. I did it all inside my WSL 2 Ubuntu installation. The terminal output of the installation task looks okay.

However, VS Code (neither on the Windows nor on the WSL side) seems to have the installed extension available.
Adding the setting typescript-go.executablePath in the settings.json does mark the setting as Unknown Configuration Setting. Again, on Windows and in WSL.

What can I do so the VS Code server inside WSL will use tsgo?

[michaelschufi]

Never mind. I figured it out.

When trying to install the extension with the command

code --install-extension _extension/typescript-lsp.vsix

The code command used by my shell (basic Ubuntu Bash), pointed to the Windows binaries instead of the VS Code server inside WSL.

You can check this using:

which code
# prints in my case
# /mnt/c/Program Files/Microsoft VS Code/bin/code

This meant that VS Code was trying to install it for Windows instead.

To make the extension get installed for the VS Code Server inside WSL, run the command inside a VS Code window which is connected to WSL.

which code
# inside a VS Code terminal prints
# /home/michael/.vscode-server/bin/848b80aeb52026648a8ff9f7c45a9b0a80641e2e/bin/remote-cli/code

[jakebailey]

FYI we now publish the extension to the VS Code marketplace: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=TypeScriptTeam.native-preview