VS Code Extension for RWX Now Available

We just released a VS Code Extension for RWX.

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=RWX.rwx-vscode-extension

The VS Code Extension pushes feedback even earlier in the development process, straight into the editor. With autocompletion and inline documentation, the fastest feedback loop for defining CI/CD pipelines is now even faster.

Local Development Workflow

Implementing CI/CD pipelines can be 10x faster on RWX than on any other CI/CD platform due to three capabilities:

RWX supports initiating workflows from a local CLI rather than having to commit and push to run.

RWX also supports setting breakpoints to open a remote debugger, enabling engineers to instantly diagnose issues rather than having to add debugging lines or guess at fixes.

Additionally, with intelligent caching, engineers can productively iterate on steps that are far downstream in a pipeline. Without caching, the feedback loop to test changes deep into a pipeline can take 10+ minutes. With caching, everything previously executed up until the changes will instantly cache hit.

Language Server

We had already written a custom yaml parser to provide stack frames and highly informative error messages. We utilized the parser to create a language server which we then used to build the VS Code Extension.

Thanks, Claude

Claude implemented the majority of the extension. This was a great use case for AI – implementing a well-known utility based on a well-known specification.

Demo