Automatic candid generation and dfx build on save for Internet Computer Protocol (ICP) projects written in Rust.
Do you hate having to run obscure CLI commands in order for your candid files to be generated? Personally, I hated it so I created an extension to circumvent this challenge. After installing this extension, candid-extractor will be called automatically on every save done in a Rust canister file. Here's my honest take: You need this for development on ICP. I haven't found a better solution, if you do, please let me know -- I'm eager to hear about it.
I do not recommend using this extension for large ICP canister projects. The rust-analyzer is slow and dfx build is also a slowpoke. Therefore, combinining low performance of these two with large files and multiple canister projects (e.g an ICP multirepo with frontend, backend, and more) will bust your RAM and freeze Visual Studio Code. Not good.
This extension is currently under development and is specifically designed for Rust-based ICP projects. Use with caution in production environments.
For this extension to work, one must first install the candid-extractor CLI plugin
cargo install candid-extractor
Please report any issues in the extension's Github repository.
- Automatic generation of candid files
- Automatic build of canisters on save
- Stop / restart dfx (coming soon)
- Rust extensions for Visual Studio Code
- Rust toolchain
dfxCLI tool
- Added automatic
dfx buildon save
- Incorporated the ICP logo
- Added automatic candid generation when saving Rust files
Feel free to contribute to this project! We welcome pull requests, bug reports, and feature suggestions. Please see our contributing guidelines for more information.
MIT License
If you encounter any issues or have questions, please file an issue on our GitHub repository.