# Contributing to Built-In Extensions

This directory contains built-in extensions that ship with VS Code.

## Basic Structure

A typical TypeScript-based built-in extension has the following structure:

- `package.json`: extension manifest.
- `src/`: Main directory for TypeScript source code.
- `tsconfig.json`: primary TypeScript config. This should inherit from `tsconfig.base.json`.
- `esbuild.mts`: esbuild build script used for production builds.
- `.vscodeignore`: Ignore file list. You can copy this from an existing extension.

TypeScript-based extensions have the following output structure:

- `out`: Output directory for development builds
- `dist`: Output directory for production builds.


## Enabling an Extension in the Browser

By default extensions will only target desktop. To enable an extension in browsers as well:

- Add a `"browser"` entry in `package.json` pointing to the browser bundle (for example `"./dist/browser/extension"`).
- Add `tsconfig.browser.json` that typechecks only browser-safe sources.
- Add an `esbuild.browser.mts` file. This should set `platform: 'browser'`.

Make sure the browser build of the extension only uses browser-safe APIs. If an extension needs different behavior between desktop and web, you can create distinct entrypoints for each target:

- `src/extension.ts`: Desktop entrypoint.
- `src/extension.browser.ts`: Browser entrypoint. Make sure `esbuild.browser.mts` builds this and that `tsconfig.browser.json` targets it.