Please do not use vscode in the dependencies section of package.json

[alexdima]

The vscode npm module contains some helper stuff which can download vscode for testing purposes if you use continuous integration, which can download the vscode.d.ts, but which also drags in a lot of dependencies. The engines field is the place which captures that this is a vscode extension and it is enforced at runtime.

Using vscode in the dependencies section leads to a lot larger extension size (for no good reason).

The correct place to put it is in devDependencies.

[rkeithhill]

Thanks for letting us know. We'll make that switch.

[rkeithhill]

@alexandrudima Do you guys happen to have an extension that acts as a "linter" for VSCode extensions?

[alexdima]

Actually we do and it's bundled with VS Code -- https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/tree/master/extensions/extension-editing -- we could perhaps catch this automatically at development time.