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The market for API clients (aka REST Clients) is growing. Competition has forced many providers to give their users more features, easier workflows, and lower prices. This is great for developers that are looking to improve their API testing, descriptions, and integrations. The caveat is the difficulty in finding the right API client for your needs. It's time-consuming to work through the stated features, free trials, and example images on the providers' websites.

Therefore, in this article, we are going to take a look at three API clients:

A few of the comparison categories include:

Before jumping into the comparisons, let's talk about what an API client is and how these services look to solve similar issues.

An API client is a set of tools and protocols that operate from an application on a computer. They help you to bypass some operations when developing a web application rather than reinventing the wheel every time. Using a client API is a great way to speed up the development process.

What is Client (in API Terms)?, API Glossary, RapidAPI

Insomnia, Paw, and Postman are referred to as HTTP/API clients. They provide a graphical user interface (GUI) to send HTTP requests.

API clients allow users to quickly design and test APIs. Consequently, this can greatly increase development speed.

API Testing Tools

Testing APIs is what brings many developers to look into the different types of API clients available. If a program cannot compile code in development it will throw an error. There's instant feedback when the code is incorrect. Similarly, this kind of development experience is desired with API clients. As users create routes they want instant feedback on whether this new route can handle the types of HTTP requests it plans to receive.

Some languages and runtimes, like Python and NodeJS, have "test runners" that can quickly execute a suite of tests on new code. API clients have API testing tools that can mock responses, requests, or return predefined example errors. Also, they can utilize dynamic values.

Being able to work dynamic values into an HTTP request-when testing-can let a user string together requests in a series to mimic the behavior of an application or user. Next, let's introduce the three API clients that we discuss in this article.

Design and debug APIs like a human, not a robot.
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Insomnia offers an easy and everyday solution. It plays well with GraphQL and has an extensive free tier. Insomnia allows users to design APIs, create requests, inspect responses, configure gateways, and deploy API specs.

Paw is a full-featured HTTP client that lets you test and describe the APIs you build or consume. It has a beautiful native macOS interface to compose requests, inspect server responses, generate client code and export API definitions.

Similarily, Paw offers abilities to collaborate, design, and test API clients. Paw is specifically designed to be an advanced API tool for Mac.

Postman is a collaboration platform for API development. Postman's features simplify each step of building an API and streamline collaboration so you can create better APIs-faster.
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Postman is an API client that allows the user to design, mock, test, document, and monitor your APIs. Postman also has automated testing that can help improve continuous integration (CI) and continuous deployment (CD).

Related: Convert Postman Collection to OpenAPI

Now that you have some background on these HTTP clients, let's get into the details on how they stack up. If you are hoping for an outright winner you will most likely be disappointed. However, you will probably find certain advantages for each category that may pander to your needs.

Look and feel. Postman and Insomnia have custom user interfaces with Insomnia's looking more simple than Postman's. Paw is integrated with macOS, therefore the user interface is aligned with what Mac users already expect. This is an advantage for Paw if you're a Mac user.

Clicks to create a request. All providers came in pretty low with creating a request only taking a click or two.

Launch speed. Opening the different applications can vary based on your machine. However, Paw was able to open in ~1.4 seconds, Postman clocked in at around 6 seconds, and Insomnia launched in ~3.15 seconds.

Handling large requests. Insomnia hides responses over 5 MB and the user can choose to view the full response after a performance warning. Both Paw and Postman show good speeds with large response objects. Despite their similarities, Paw was able to load and "pretty print" (format the JSON so it was easier to read) a 10 MB response object in less than half a second.

Supports multi-line text. Only Insomnia supports multi-line text.

Generate code snippets. All of the services allow the user to create code snippets for different programming languages. However, Paw has a feature that allows for custom code generation.

Conclusion: Winner is Paw

UX and performance appear to favor Paw. That being said, the UI is favorable to users that use Mac. Next, let's take a look at authentication.

Authentication

Authentication options were fairly consistent across the board for the three API clients. Aside from the authentication mechanisms supported out-of-the-box, Paw provides a way for users to write custom auth schemes using JavaScript-based extensions.

When using Postman it's worth noting that the OAuth 2 configuration is not stored with the request (only the token is stored). Therefore, if the user wants to fetch the token again, they need to enter all OAuth parameters a second time.

Conclusion: Almost a tie

You can see a virtual tie here with authentication methods. However, Paw does have the ability to extend it's authentication methods a little bit further via extensions.

Environments

When working with API clients there's typically a need to create environment variables that help with API testing and mocking. Also, environment variables can be used for configurations like handling cookies or headers. The details become even more important when handling security. It's nice to be able to separate environment variables between APIs because some APIs have a lot of variables attached to them in the client.

General. All the services support environments. Also, Insomnia and Paw let the user segregate environment variables per project (workspace). In Postman, the variable grouping is called environments that can be shared between workspaces.

Paw allows for multiple environments to be organized in groups and Insomnia lets the user create sub-environments for organization purposes.

Cloud sync. Paw syncs environments with an option for end-to-end encryption in the cloud. Insomnia and Postman provide syncing capabilities.

Editing environments. Both Postman and Paw have an intuitive table view for editing variables. You can edit Insomnia variables in a JSON input component.

Conclusion: Winners are Paw and Postman

The use of environment variables, and grouping variables, seems to be a standard future for HTTP clients. The differences between the services are small, but we favor the UI for the workflow with Paw and Postman.

Composition, Values, and Scripting

Being able to compose detailed requests, script scenarios, and build advanced values becomes important when you reach the upper levels of API design. Programming typically moves toward making things more automated and simple. Having the ability to use advanced values and script in the app can improve development speed, automation, and simplicity.

Body types are the format of data that can be sent with the HTTP requests from the client. For many use cases, this is JSON. However, there are plenty of other ways to send data over the internet!

Dynamic Values. Creating complex scenarios with dynamic values does not seem to be possible with Insomnia. While Postman requires users to manually write JavaScript code snippets for advanced use cases, Paw also supports "dynamic values" to quickly create complex scenarios only using visual programming.

JS Snippets. We see the services stack up as they did with dynamic values. Insomnia does not allow for custom code snippets. Insomnia seems to be lacking here with Paw and Postman providing Javascript snippets. Furthermore, Paw has a pretty well-documented and extensive Javascript API. This can be intimidating if you are new to APIs. However, for more advanced users it's what you like to see.

Plug-ins/Extensions. Insomnia and Paw can create plugins. Paw seems to emphasize the use of plug-ins and user-created extensions. This is apparent when viewing the table on their Authentication support in a previous section. Postman does not allow users to create plugins.

Conclusion: Winner is Paw

Paw checks off all the boxes with their Javascript API, documentation, dynamic values, and plug-in creation. This appeals to advanced users. This category goes to Paw. However, with the increased use of GraphQL, it's difficult to ignore the missing support for GraphQL in body values using Paw.

API Description

The ability to easily describe and spec-out an API is huge for API design. Therefore, it's very important to make this process logical and easy for developers. Many APIs look to utilize specifications like OpenAPI and Swagger. These specs can be imported, exported, and generated in API clients. Above is a table comparing the services and what they support.

Paw does not support OpenAPI 3.0. That being said, Paw does allow exporting for Swagger 2.0. This cannot be done in Insomnia and in Postman you must use a third-party. Insomnia allows users to work with their Insomnia Designer and Swagger to add schemas and generate documentation. Out of the three, Postman is the only one that lets the user save a response object as an "Example".

The advantages and disadvantages are spread out fairly evenly across the board in this documentation. In other words, it's up to the user to determine which service provides the best fit for their documentation.

The majority of software needs some type of testing. API clients can be used to help test other applications and software by sending mock HTTP requests. Some services offer testing within their application. Out of the three API clients in this article, Postman is the only one that has testing capabilities.

Conclusion: Winner is Postman

Postman takes the testing category. Being able to set up automated tests in the cloud and locally can give users peace of mind during development.
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Paw is a macOS native application, so it's probably more exciting to someone working on a Mac. Postman and Insomnia support use on Mac, Linux, and Windows. Additionally, Postman has support for browser use with Postman for the web.

Conclusion: Winner is Postman

By total numbers, Postman and Insomnia win the competition for the diversity of platforms. Finally, in the last section, we are going to break down the services by price.

Below are the prices for the three services based on plans offered. Postman and Insomnia both offer a free tier. However, if you plan to be sticking with API development and design, the flat-fee option in Paw will be more advantageous in the long run.

More advanced users and teams need to take a harder look at the features that they are going to be paying for.

Insomnia offers a Team plan of $8 per month. This is the lowest price, but it lacks in features (i.e testing, dynamic values, etc.) when compared to the other two providers. Paw and Postman have increased areas of strength. Analysis on a case-by-case basis would be more appropriate. That being said, Paw offers the lower Team rate per user in a month. If someone can use macOS for development, then Paw offers a better team cost compared to Postman.

API clients change regularly. They are continuously redesigning and adding features. Keep an eye on the companies website or view announcements to see when or where a company is going next.

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Directory : Equivalent to a folder on a file system. "Directory" sounds more nerdy. Root Directory : The top folder of any given server "context". On your local file system, the root directory is the top directory on your hard drive. For a website, it's the top directory under a domain name.

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What is Oh My Zsh?

Oh My Zsh is an open source, community-driven framework for managing your Zsh configuration.

Sounds boring. Let's try again.

Oh My Zsh will not make you a 10x developer...but you may feel like one!

Once installed, your terminal shell will become the talk of the town or your money back! With each keystroke in your command prompt, you'll take advantage of the hundreds of powerful plugins and beautiful themes. Strangers will come up to you in cafés and ask you, "that is amazing! are you some sort of genius?"

Finally, you'll begin to get the sort of attention that you have always felt you deserved. ...or maybe you'll use the time that you're saving to start flossing more often. 😬

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Oh My Zsh - a delightful & open source framework for Zsh

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Oh My Zsh is an open source, community-driven framework for managing your Zsh configuration. Sounds boring. Let's try again. Oh My Zsh will not make you a 10x developer...but you may feel like one! Once installed, your terminal shell will become the talk of the town or your money back!

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Windows users have the option of entering terminal commands in either Window's Powershell (aka. command prompt) or Linux's bash terminal (or similar).

These examples assume you'll be using bash but most will work in Powershell.

- Windows: Open Git Bash (included when you install Git).
- Mac: Open Terminal (default is bash). iTerm2 is dreamy.

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Command Line Interface (CLI) : An alternative to Graphical User Interfaces (GUI) that are based on mouse clicks. Terminal apps come in a few flavours; in this course you can use a unix terminal of your choice. The Terminal : A nickname for an application that understands one or more Command Line Interfaces (CLIs).

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Chrome supports a number of different release channels. We use these channels to slowly roll out updates to users, starting with our close to daily Canary channel builds, all the way up to our Stable channel releases that happen every 6 weeks roughly.

Channels

Windows 64-bit

Windows 32-bit

Android

Linux

How do I choose which channel to use?

The release channels for chrome range from the most stable and tested (Stable channel) to completely untested and likely least stable (Canary channel). You can run all channels alongside all others, as they do not share profiles with one another. This allows you to play with our latest code, while still keeping a tested version of Chrome around.

Stable channel: This channel has gotten the full testing and blessing of the Chrome test team, and is the best bet to avoid crashes and other issues. It's updated roughly every two-three weeks for minor releases, and every 6 weeks for major releases.

Beta channel: If you are interested in seeing what's next, with minimal risk, Beta channel is the place to be. It's updated every week roughly, with major updates coming every six weeks, more than a month before the Stable channel will get them.

Dev channel: If you want to see what's happening quickly, then you want the Dev channel. The Dev channel gets updated once or twice weekly, and it shows what we're working on right now. There's no lag between major versions, whatever code we've got, you will get. While this build does get tested, it is still subject to bugs, as we want people to see what's new as soon as possible.

Canary build: Canary builds are the bleeding edge. Released daily, this build has not been tested or used, it's released as soon as it's built.

Other builds: If you're extra brave, you can download the latest working (and that's a very loose definition of working) build from download-chromium.appspot.com. You can also look for a more specific recent build by going to the Chromium continuous build waterfall, looking at the number near the top under "LKGR", and then going to this Google Storage bucket and downloading the corresponding build.

Note: Early access releases (Canary builds and Dev and Beta channels) will be only partly translated into languages other than English. Text related to new features may not get translated into all languages until the feature is released in the Stable channel.
What should I do before I change my channel?

Back up your data!

Before you switch, you should make a backup of your profile (bookmarks, most visited pages, history, cookies, etc). If you ever want to switch back to a more stable channel, your updated profile data might not be compatible with the older version.

Make a copy of the User Data\Default directory (for example, copy it to 'Default Backup' in the same location). The location depends on your operating system:

Windows XP:
Windows Vista, 7, 8 or 10:
Mac OS X:

Stable channels, as well as older beta and dev channels: ~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default

Beta channel: ~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome Beta/Default

Dev channel: ~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome Dev/Default

Canary builds: ~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome Canary/Default

Note:If you're using Explorer to find the folder, you might need to set Show hidden files and folders in Tools > Folder Options... > View.

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One of the benefits of the next version of Microsoft Edge is that Microsoft can provide new features on a regular basis. However, as the admin who deploys Microsoft Edge to the users in your organization, you might want to have more control over how often your users get these new features. Microsoft provides you four options, called channels, to control how often Microsoft Edge is updated with new features. Here's an overview of the four options.

For more information on support for each channel read: Microsoft Edge Lifecycle

Note

This article applies to Microsoft Edge version 77 or later.

Channel overview

Channel

Primary purpose

How often updated with new features

Supported?

Which update channel you decide to deploy to your users depends on several factors, such as how many line of business applications the user leverages and that you need to test any time they have an updated version of Microsoft Edge. To help you make this decision, review the following information about the four update channels that are available for Microsoft Edge.

Stable Channel

The Stable Channel is intended for broad deployment in your organization, and it is the channel that most users should be on. It is the most stable of the channels and is the a result of the stabilization of the feature set available in the prior Beta Channel release. New features ship about every 6 weeks. Security and quality updates ship as needed. A release from the Stable Channel is serviced until the next release from the channel is available.

Beta Channel

The Beta Channel is intended for production deployment in your organization to a representative sample set of users. It is a supported release, and each release from Beta is serviced until the next release from this channel is available. This is a great opportunity to validate that things work as expected in your environment, and if you encounter an issue have it remediated prior to the release going publishing to the Stable Channel. New features ship about every 6 weeks. Security and quality updates ship as needed.

Dev Channel

The Dev Channel is intended to help you plan and develop with the latest capabilities of Microsoft Edge, but with higher quality than the Canary Channel. This is your opportunity to get an early look at what is coming next and prepare for the next Beta release.

Canary Channel

The Canary Channel ships daily and is the most bleeding edge of all the channels. If you want access to the newest investments then they will appear here first. Because of the nature of this cadence problems will arise overtime, so you may want another channel installed side by side if you are leveraging the Canary releases.

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Safari is the best way to see the sites on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Thanks to blazing-fast performance and industry-leading energy efficiency, hundreds of millions of users enjoy exploring the web with Safari. Take advantage of powerful new features, advanced developer tools, and cutting edge technologies in Safari to deliver the best-in class websites and apps.

Apple Pay on the Web

Give customers an easy and secure way to make purchases in Safari 10 or later. Apple Pay allows customers to quickly pay without entering payment, shipping, or contact information on supported websites from their Mac, iPhone, or iPad. Because card numbers aren't used and every transaction is confirmed with a fingerprint or passcode, Apple Pay is more secure than accepting credit and debit cards.
Learn more about Apple Pay

Picture in Picture

Now users can keep an eye on web video while they multi-task on Mac. Picture in Picture lets users float a video window from Safari over their desktop or full-screen app. Users can play video in any corner of their desktop and resize the window to see more or less of what's behind it. The window stays put even if they switch desktop spaces. The default HTML5 video player in Safari automatically supports Picture in Picture. And if you use a custom video player, it's easy to add a Picture in Picture control using the JavaScript presentation mode API.

Safari Extensions on the Mac App Store

The Extensions category on the Mac App Store showcases Safari extensions, with editorial spotlights and top charts to help users discover and download great extensions from the developer community. With iOS and iPadOS 15, Safari Web Extensions are available on all Apple devices that support Safari. Use Xcode to develop your extensions, with the option to get started using App Extension templates, and implement new capabilities using powerful native APIs and familiar web technologies. Xcode 12 and later supports the popular WebExtension API and includes a porting tool to make it easy to bring your extensions to Safari. And if you've already developed an app, you can give users access to your app's functionality and content, right in Safari.

HTML5 and Legacy Plug-ins on macOS

To deliver faster load times, better battery life, and stronger security, Safari is optimized for HTML5, and will load this content whenever it is available. For websites that use proprietary formats, Safari supports the use of plug-ins such as Flash. In Safari 10, plug-ins are supported for websites where HTML5 is unavailable and may be enabled by users for each individual website. Users can choose to enable plug-ins for one session or every time they visit a specific website. For frequently-visited websites, enabled plug-ins will remain active. For infrequently-visited websites, plug-ins will be disabled.

Content Blockers on macOS

If you previously created Content Blockers for Safari on iOS, you can easily bring them to macOS. You'll be able to distribute and sell Content Blockers through the Mac App Store. Just like the new Safari Extensions, Xcode makes it easy to create Content Blockers using App Extension templates.

Autoplay and Inline Video on iOS

To help users easily discover your video content, you can now autoplay videos and play them inline with other content on your webpages on all iOS devices. Safari supports autoplay on iOS devices for videos without sound, keeping down the number of distractions on the web.

Split View in Safari on iPad

Users can now view two websites at the same time on their iPad using Split View. Responsive Design Mode makes it easy to see how your websites will render in this view - just tap the iPad preview until it turns into a Split View.

Safari Technology Preview

Download Safari Technology Preview to get a sneak peek at upcoming web technologies in macOS and iOS and experiment with them in your websites and extensions.

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02 Jul 2021 " How to use Podman inside of a container

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01 Jul 2021 " How to use Podman inside of Kubernetes

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16 Jun 2021 " How to Install and Use Podman on Ubuntu 20.04

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13 Jun 2021 " Podman Posts of Interest

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26 May 2021 " Podman 3 and Docker Compose - How Does the Dockerless Compose Work?

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In this video, Kirill Shirinkin shows how he moved from Docker to Podman in a real docker-composed application.

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Enjoy and May the Fourth be with you!

02 Apr 2021 " Podman v3.1.0 Released

27 Mar 2021 " Podman Posts of Interest

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08 Feb 2021 " Easy Development Dependency Management With Podman and Tent

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26 Jan 2021 " From Docker Compose to Kubernetes with Podman

23 Jan 2021 " Podman Posts of Interest

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23 Dec 2020 " Containers com Podman

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22 Dec 2020 " Container images, multi-architecture, manifests, ids, digests - what's behind?

14 Dec 2020 " Podman v2.2.0 Released

11 Dec 2020 " Podman API v1.0 and libpod.conf Removal Notice

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09 Dec 2020 " Using Podman and Systemd to manage container lifecycle

Ed Haynes has put together a demo of using Podman and Systemd to manage a container lifecycle that's available on GitHub. He's written up a post that does a nice job of walking through setting up the demo and running it.

07 Dec 2020 " Podman Posts of Interest

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01 Dec 2020 " Container image short names in Podman

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17 Oct 2020 " Exploring Podman RESTful API using Python and Bash

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05 Oct 2020 " Podman v2.1.0 Released

30 Sep 2020 " Podman Community Meeting - October 6, 2020

The first Podman Community meeting will be on Tuesday October 6 at 11:00 a.m. Eastern. It will be a video conference using BlueJeans and all of the details are on this post.

28 Sep 2020 " DevConf US 2020 Containers Technologies Talk

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02 Sep 2020 " Podman remote clients for macOS and Windows

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11 Aug 2020 " Moving from docker-compose to Podman pods

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02 Aug 2020 " Improved systemd integration with Podman 2.0

01 Aug 2020 " Podman API v1.0 Deprecation and Removal Notice

A Podman API v1.0 Deprecation and Removal Notice has just been posted. The Podman v1.0 API based on the varlink library has been deprecated and will soon be removed from Podman in favor of the new Podmand v2.0 RESTful API. Please see the notice for more details.

18 Jul 2020 " Speed up container builds with overlay mounts

Dan Walsh has another blog post on the Red Hat Enable Sysadmin site this time he's writing on how to Speed up container builds with overlay mounts. In the article Dan walks you through speeding up builds for multiple distributions by sharing the host's metadata.

17 Jul 2020 " Exploring additional image stores in Podman

Dan Walsh has another blog post on the Red Hat Enable Sysadmin site this time he's writing about Exploring additional image stores in Podman. In the article Dan shows you how to store container images on shares, permitting the images to be accessed over the network.

16 Jul 2020 " Building images using Podman and cron

Tom Sweeney has another blog post on the Red Hat Enable Sysadmin site this time he's writing about Building images using Podman and cron. In the article Tom talks about how necessity became the mother of invention and cron was put into use to build container images on a regular schedule.

07 Jul 2020 " The Podman repository has been renamed

01 Jul 2020 " Podman REST API and Docker compatibility

Matt Heon talks about the compatibility of the new Podman REST API and Docker's API is this blog post.

29 Jun 2020 " Announcing Podman v2.0
Announcing Podman v2.0!
Podman v2.0 is here! Brent Baude talks about the major highlights of the new release, including the new RESTful API, remote client improvements, Auto-update functionality and systemd integration improvements. More details in the announcement post.

13 May 2020 " Update on Podman v2
The local Podman v2 client is complete. It is passing all of its rootfull and rootless system and integration tests.
The CI/CID tests have been re-enabled upstream and are run with each pull request submission. We are now hard at work finishing up some of the core podman-remote functions. Once those functions are complete, we can then begin to run our podman-remote system and integration tests to catch any regressions.

More details in the announcement post.

06 May 2020 " Podman installation documentation in French

Est-ce que tu parles français? Le mien est horrible. But if your abilities to read and speak French is better than mine, check out this website that I was just pointed to. Installation podman sur CentOS 8 by Bilal Kalem shows you how to install Podman on Centos 8. If nothing else, check out the graphic at the top of the page!

17 Apr 2020 " Podman v1.9.0 Released

16 Apr 2020 " Podman v2 development update

Podman v2.x is under development and due to the development, some of the upstream commands may become unstable for a period of time until the final release is completed. More details in the announcement post.

14 Apr 2020 " Dockerless: Build and Run Containers with Podman and Systemd

In this video, Kirill Shirinkin will show how to use Podman to build container images and run Java applications in containers with Systemd. We are going to learn why we should at least try alternatives to Docker, how container runtime landscape changed and how Podman is different and in certain ways better than Docker. Watch now.

05 Apr 2020 " Managing Podman pods with pods-compose

Managing Podman pods with pods-compose makes your move to Podman easier. Balázs Németh already converted his docker-compose services to pods with Podman, however some features were missing, up until now. Let's meet pods-compose.

04 Apr 2020 " Convert docker-compose services to pods with Podman

How to deploy pods with Podman when you only need a single-host system and not a complete Kubernetes. Check the blog post Convert your docker-compose services to pods with Podman by Balázs Németh to see how it can be done.

31 Mar 2020 " Pulling podman images from a container repository

Tom Sweeney has another blog post on the Red Hat Enable Sysadmin site this time he's writing about Pulling podman images from a container repository. Learn the different varieties of pull that the podman build command can use to speed up or further secure your environment in this post.

03 Mar 2020 " What happens behind the scenes of a rootless Podman container?

Dan Walsh along with Matt Heon have a blog post on the Red Hat Enable Sysadmin site, What happens behind the scenes of a rootless Podman container?. If you ever wanted to know what happens under the covers of a rootless container, this is the article for you!

02 Mar 2020 " Building Container Images with Podman and Buildah

We were just pointed to this post Building Container Images with Podman and Buildah by Puja Abbassi on the Giant Swarm site. In the article Puja goes over how Podman and Buildah handle daemonless and rootless building processes. A tardy link on this site, but worth a read!

07 Feb 2020 " 6 guides on making containers secure

Dan Walsh has another blog post on the Red Hat Enable Sysadmin site this time he's writing about 6 guides on making containers secure. It's a quick article with pointers to other blog posts showing how to secure your containers.

06 Feb 2020 " Deploy a Pod on CentOS with Podman

30 Jan 2020 " How to run Podman on Windows with WSL2

Brent Baude has another blog post on the Red Hat Enable Sysadmin site this time it's all about How to run Podman on Windows with WSL2. If you want to know how to run Podman on Windows 10, this article will show you how.

22 Jan 2020 " Blog posts from the Web

A number of blog posts were posted over the past month and given the holiday crunch, we didn't get them listed on the site. So as a catch up, checkout the Blog posts on the Web blog which has a number of links on it to those great articles and videos.

17 Jan 2020 " New API coming for Podman

The new API for Podman, referred to as apiv2, has been merged into the libpod repository. It's a simpler REST API that's more compatible with Docker implementations than the varlink protocol that's currently in use. For more details, see this release announcement by Brent Baude.

15 Jan 2020 " Bioinformatics and rootless containers with Podman

Bryan Hepworth demonstrating how to create a rootless container image for a Bioinformatics program here.

17 Dec 2019 " Running containers with Podman and shareable systemd services

Podman version 1.7 is coming out soon and will include new features that will make management of containers with systemd services even easier. Valentin Rothberg has a blog post on the Red Hat Enable Sysadmin site that previews the features: Running containers with Podman and shareable systemd services. In the post Valentin goes over the highlights and then gives a great working example.

14 Dec 2019 " Working with Linux containers on RHEL 8 with Podman, image builder and web console

Do you want to know how to setup RHEL 8 to run containers using Podman? Xuegang Jin has a blog post on the Red Hat Blog about this very subject, Working with Linux containers on RHEL 8 with Podman, image builder and web console. In the post Xuegang shows you how you can use Image Builder to create an OS image, how to run containers with Podman, and how to check the host and containers performance using Web Console.

11 Dec 2019 " Understanding root inside and outside a container

Do you run containers as root, or as a regular user? Scott McCarty has a blog post on the Red Hat Blog about this very subject, Understanding root inside and outside a container. In the post Scott walks you through what a rootless container does and how it can be a safer alternative to a container run by root.

26 Nov 2019 " Rootless Podman and NFS

Dan Walsh has another blog post on the Red Hat Enable Sysadmin site this time about Rootless Podman and NFS. In the post Dan talks about how you can make some minor configuration changes to allow Podman to use a user's home directory on an NFS share. Give it a read!

20 Nov 2019 " How To Install Podman on Debian

Josphat Mutai posted a blog post on the Computing for Geeks site talking about How To Install Podman on Debian. In the post Josphat walks through all the steps necessary from 'A' to 'Z' to get Podman up and running on Debian and how to do some initial Podman commands.

13 Nov 2019 " Leasing routable IP addresses with Podman containers

Brent Baude has another blog post on the Red Hat Enable Sysadmin site this time about Leasing routable IP addresses with Podman containers. In the post Brent talks about using the macvlan and the dhcp plugins that ship with the container-networking project in order to lease ip addresses for your containers.

12 Nov 2019 " Fedora 31 and Control Group v2

Dan Walsh has another blog post on the Red Hat Enable Sysadmin site this time about Fedora 31 and Control Group v2. In the post Dan talks about the new version of control groups that is part of the Fedora 31 release and how it makes containers even more secure.

08 Nov 2019 " Building freely distributed containers with open tools

Scott McCarty (@fatherlinux) has an amazing video on YouTube about Building freely distributed containers with open tools. As only Scott could say "Although explaining how to ride a Tron-style light cycle is beyond the scope of this tutorial, we will discuss something almost as exhilarating-building containers with #Podman and #RedHat Universal Base Image (UBI). We will cover how to build and run #containers based on #UBI using just your regular user account-no daemon, no root (rootless), no fuss. Finally, we will order the deresolution of all of our containers with a really cool command. You probably won't be promoted to CEO of ENCOM after this talk, but you will have new tools in your toolbelt for how to find, run, build, and share container images."

07 Nov 2019 " Basic security principles for containers and container runtimes

has another blog post on the Red Hat Enable Sysadmin site this time about Basic security principles for containers and container runtimes. In the post Brent talks about the three core security themes concerning containers and why user privileges matter in the space.

05 Nov 2019 " Migrating from Docker to Podman

Elliott Sales de Andrade's post on Quantum Logic, Migrating from Docker to Podman takes a look at his migration from Docker to Podman and a good assessment of where the Podman tool stands in comparison to Docker.

31 Oct 2019 " The current adoption status of cgroup v2 in containers

In case you missed Akihiro Suda's post on Medium.com, The current adoption status of cgroup v2 in containers, here's a quick link to it. In the article Akihiro talks all things cgroup v2 and what changes it promises to bring to the world of containers, and Podman is at the forefront of that change.

29 Oct 2019 " First Look: Rootless Containers and cgroup v2 on Fedora 31

Want to allow your users without privileges to run a container securerly on your host? Then this post: First Look: Rootless Containers and cgroup v2 on Fedora 31 will show you how. It's quick, it's easy, it's secure and it won't even cost $19.99!

28 Oct 2019 " Podman and NFS

Adrian Reber wrote up a quick post on "Podman and NFS" here. In the article Adrian shows how he extended his HPC environment to us a shared NFS home directory.

23 Oct 2019 " PMM Server + podman: Running a Container Without root Privileges

Ceri Williams talks about how the Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) can be run in a container using Podman without root privileges here. In the post Ceri talks about how Percona was able to replace Docker with Podman and Buildah and are able to run containers more securely by doing so.

15 Oct 2019 " Generate SECCOMP Profiles for Containers Using Podman and eBPF

Valentin Rothberg checks in with the "Generate SECCOMP Profiles for Containers Using Podman and eBPF" blog here. In the article Valentin introduces the OCI seccomp hook which allows you to trace the syscalls of a container and then runs through a working example.

14 Oct 2019 " Here's why podman is more secured than Docker - DevSecOps

Ganesh Mani discusses why Podman is more secure than Docker here on the CLOUDNWEB site. Ganesh talks about why Podman's fork and execute model is more secure than Docker's client server model.

14 Oct 2019 " Say "Hello" to Buildah, Podman, and Skopeo

Saharsh Singh talks about how he's moved on from his Docker daemon and moved on to Podman, Buildah and Skopeo here on the Red Hat Service Blog site. Saharsh walks you through a history of container tools and then talks about Podman, Buildah and Skopeo with a lot of great examples.

02 Oct 2019 " Configuring container networking with Podman

has a blog post on the Red Hat Enable Sysadmin site about Configuring container networking with Podman. In the post Brent goes over how you can communicate between a container and the host, between containers in and out of a pod, while running as a root and as a non-root user.

25 Sep 2019 " Podman in HPC environments

Adrian Reber talks all about the Message Passing Interface (MPI) in a High-Performance Computing (HPC) environment with the help of Podman here. Adrian provides a nice walk through of how he accomplished this and then explains each of his steps in great detail.

11 Sep 2019 " Why can't rootless Podman pull my image?

Matt Heon has a blog post on the Red Hat Enable Sysadmin site about Why can't rootless Podman pull my image?. In the blog Matt discusses why restrictions on rootless containers can be inconvenient, but why they're necessary. In the blog Matt covers the use of user namespace and the allocations of uid and gid's that are required to make rootless containers work securely in your environment.

28 Aug 2019 " Best practices for running Buildah in a container

Dan Walsh has recently posted a blog on the Red Hat Developer Blog, Best practices for running Buildah in a container. The post walks you through the balancing act of running a container securely using Podman while keeping an eye on performance. A big boost to the performance side of things is the concept of "Additional Stores". Dan walks you through the use of those in this blog and then wraps it all up with an on-line video at the end.

23 Aug 2019 " Podman, contenedores sin Docker

How's your espanol? If it's good, checkout this video blog on YouTube Podman, contenedores sin Docker! In it Iñigo Serrano shows how to run Wildfly in a Podman container without Docker.

22 Aug 2019 " Using the rootless containers Tech Preview in RHEL 8.0

Scott McCarty has a blog post on the Red Hat Blog about Using the rootless containers Tech Preview in RHEL 8.0. Podman rootless containers has hit Tech Preview for RHEL 8.0 and Scott walks you through the setup necessary for rootless containers. Small hint, it's a short post because it's just that easy.

14 Aug 2019 " Podman v1.5.0 Released

10 Aug 2019 " How templating works with Podman, Kubernetes, and Red Hat OpenShift

Olaph Wagner has put together a nice introduction on How templating works with Podman, Kubernetes, and Red Hat OpenShift on the IBM Developer blog site. If you want to find out how to use Podman to create images that helps Red Hat OpenShift to make templates on the IBM Cloud(TM), then this is the article for you!

08 Aug 2019 " Command Highlight: podman images

A quick asciinema demo highlighting what the podman images command can do. A great way to get quickly immersed with this command in just a few minutes time. Checkout the demo here and if you want to run the script yourself, it can be found here.

29 Jul 2019 " Podman: Linux containers made easy, part 3

06 Jul 2019 " How Podman replaces Docker and Docker Compose for local development

Is it possible to completely replace Docker with Podman without any loss of developer's productivity? Read about real use case in new article on mkdev.me blog: Dockerless, part 3: Moving development environment to containers with Podman.

26 Jun 2019 " Replacing Docker with Podman

Ganesh Mani recently wrote the blog Replacing Docker with Podman - Power of Podman - Cloudnweb. The article gives a nice overview of Docker, Podman, their differences, and how you can use Podman to replace Docker. A nice read and really, who doesn't love a blog that wraps up with a meme featuring The Rock?

19 Jun 2019 " OnDemand Course: Container pipelines for sys admins-and anyone, really-with Buildah and Podman

Red Hat has recently posted an OnDemand course: Container pipelines for sys admins-and anyone, really-with Buildah and Podman. The session teaches you how to integrate both Podman and Buildah into your continuous delivery (CI/CD) solutions and also serves as a good introduction to both tools. The cost can't be beat (free!), so if you're looking for a quick introduction into the tools, this is a good way to go.

17 Jun 2019 " Announcing the Podman Mailing List!

We've received a number of requests for a mailing list for Podman and we're happy to announce that one has just been created! We've built a friendly community on IRC and GitHub and plan to continue that growth in this new mailing list. The maintainers of the project are all members of the list and we're happy to take any and all questions there about Podman. You can also just use the list as a way to track what's going on with Podman as release announcements and other important news will be posted there.

Get all the details on this blog post!

13 Jun 2019 " Podman Cheat Sheet

Red Hat Developer recently posted a new Podman Cheat Sheet on their blog. It's a handy guide that cover the commands that focus on images, containers and container resources. Check it out!

14 Dec 2018 " New Blog from Emilien Macchi, Part 4!

Emilien Macchi has posted a fourth blog on how his group is running Healthchecks for Podman containers: " OpenStack Containerization with Podman - Part 4 (Healthchecks) ". Check it out!

If you've missed the news so far, CoreOS was acquired by Red Hat at the beginning of 2018. This also means some changes for Buildah and Podman.

To start it up, check out the new Blogs and Releases sections on the site.

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"Tips and Tricks" lets you jump right in and learn how to be productive with Visual Studio Code. You'll become familiar with its powerful editing, code intelligence, and source code control features and learn useful keyboard shortcuts. This topic goes pretty fast and provides a broad overview, so be sure to look at the other in-depth topics in Getting Started and the User Guide to learn more.

If you don't have Visual Studio Code installed, go to the Download page. You can find platform specific setup instructions at Running VS Code on Linux, macOS, and Windows.

Prefer a video? You can watch a recent Microsoft Build talk Visual Studio Code tips and tricks, which describes 20 tips and tricks for working productively with VS Code.

Basics

Getting started

Open the Welcome page to get started with the basics of VS Code. Help > Welcome.

In the bottom right of the Welcome page, there is a link to the Interactive playground where you can interactively try out VS Code's features. Help > Interactive Playground.

Command Palette

Access all available commands based on your current context.

Default keyboard shortcuts

All of the commands are in the Command Palette with the associated key binding (if it exists). If you forget a keyboard shortcut, use the Command Palette to help you out.

Keyboard reference sheets

Download the keyboard shortcut reference sheet for your platform ( macOS, Windows, Linux).

Quick Open

Quickly open files.

Tip: Type ? to view commands suggestions.

Typing commands such as edt and term followed by a space will bring up dropdown lists.

Repeat the Quick Open keyboard shortcut to cycle quickly between recently opened files.

Open multiple files from Quick Open

You can open multiple files from Quick Open by pressing the Right arrow key. This will open the currently selected file in the background and you can continue selecting files from Quick Open.

Open Recent

Displays a Quick Pick dropdown with the list from File > Open Recent with recently opened folders and workspaces followed by files.

Command line

VS Code has a powerful command line interface (CLI) which allows you to customize how the editor is launched to support various scenarios.

Make sure the VS Code binary is on your path so you can simply type 'code' to launch VS Code. See the platform specific setup topics if VS Code is added to your environment path during installation ( Running VS Code on Linux, macOS, Windows).

.vscode folder

Workspace specific files are in a .vscode folder at the root. For example, tasks.json for the Task Runner and launch.json for the debugger.

Status Bar

Errors and warnings

Quickly jump to errors and warnings in the project.

You can filter problems either by type ('errors', 'warnings') or text matching.

Change language mode

If you want to persist the new language mode for that file type, you can use the Configure File Association for command to associate the current file extension with an installed language.

Customization

There are many things you can do to customize VS Code.

Change your theme

Change your keyboard shortcuts

Tune your settings

Add JSON validation

Create snippets

Install extensions

Change your theme

You can install more themes from the VS Code extension Marketplace.

Additionally, you can install and change your File Icon themes.

Keymaps

Are you used to keyboard shortcuts from another editor? You can install a Keymap extension that brings the keyboard shortcuts from your favorite editor to VS Code. Go to Preferences > Keymaps to see the current list on the Marketplace. Some of the more popular ones:

Customize your keyboard shortcuts

You can search for shortcuts and add your own keybindings to the keybindings.json file.

See more in Key Bindings for Visual Studio Code.

Tune your settings

By default VS Code shows the Settings editor, you can find settings listed below in a search bar, but you can still edit the underlying settings.json file by using the Open Settings (JSON) command or by changing your default settings editor with the workbench.settings.editor setting.

Open User Settings settings.json

Change the font size of various UI elements

Change the zoom level

Font ligatures

Tip: You will need to have a font installed that supports font ligatures. FiraCode is a popular font on the VS Code team.

Auto Save

You can also toggle Auto Save from the top-level menu with the File > Auto Save.

Format on save

Format on paste

Change the size of Tab characters

Spaces or Tabs

Render whitespace

Whitespace characters are rendered by default in text selection.

Ignore files / folders

Removes these files / folders from your editor window.

Remove these files / folders from search results.

And many, many other customizations.

Language specific settings

You can scope the settings that you only want for specific languages by the language identifier. You can find a list of commonly used language ids in the Language Identifiers reference.

Tip: You can also create language specific settings with the Configure Language Specific Settings command.

Add JSON validation

Enabled by default for many file types. Create your own schema and validation in settings.json

or for a schema defined in your workspace

or a custom schema

See more in the JSON documentation.

Extensions

Find extensions

1. In the VS Code Marketplace.

2. Search inside VS Code in the Extensions view.

3. View extension recommendations

4. Community curated extension lists, such as awesome-vscode.

Install extensions

In the Extensions view, you can search via the search bar or click the More Actions (...) button to filter and sort by install count.

Extension recommendations

In the Extensions view, click Show Recommended Extensions in the More Actions (...) button menu.

Creating my own extension

Are you interested in creating your own extension? You can learn how to do this in the Extension API documentation, specifically check out the documentation on contribution points.

Files and folders

Integrated Terminal

Further reading:

Toggle Panel

Zen mode

Enter distraction free Zen mode.

Press Esc twice to exit Zen Mode.

Side by side editing

You can also drag and drop editors to create new editor groups and move editors between groups.

Switch between editors

Move to Explorer window

Create or open a file

Keyboard Shortcut: Ctrl+click (Cmd+click on macOS)

You can quickly open a file or image or create a new file by moving the cursor to the file link and using Ctrl+click.

Close the currently opened folder

File associations

Create language associations for files that aren't detected correctly. For example, many configuration files with custom file extensions are actually JSON.

Preventing dirty writes

VS Code will show you an error message when you try to save a file that cannot be saved because it has changed on disk. VS Code blocks saving the file to prevent overwriting changes that have been made outside of the editor.

In order to resolve the save conflict, click the Compare action in the error message to open a diff editor that will show you the contents of the file on disk (to the left) compared to the contents in VS Code (on the right):

Use the actions in the editor toolbar to resolve the save conflict. You can either Accept your changes and thereby overwriting any changes on disk, or Revert to the version on disk. Reverting means that your changes will be lost.

Note: The file will remain dirty and cannot be saved until you pick one of the two actions to resolve the conflict.

Editing hacks

Here is a selection of common features for editing code. If the keyboard shortcuts aren't comfortable for you, consider installing a keymap extension for your old editor.

Tip: You can see recommended keymap extensions in the Extensions view with ⌘K ⌘M (Windows, Linux Ctrl+K Ctrl+M) which filters the search to @recommended:keymaps.

Multi cursor selection

To add cursors at arbitrary positions, select a position with your mouse and use Alt+Click (Option+click on macOS).

To set cursors above or below the current position use:

Keyboard Shortcut: or

Note: You can also change the modifier to Ctrl/Cmd for applying multiple cursors with the editor.multiCursorModifier setting . See Multi-cursor Modifier for details.

Column (box) selection

You can select blocks of text by holding Shift+Alt (Shift+Option on macOS) while you drag your mouse. A separate cursor will be added to the end of each selected line.

You can also use keyboard shortcuts to trigger column selection.

Vertical rulers

You can add vertical column rulers to the editor with the editor.rulers setting, which takes an array of column character positions where you'd like vertical rulers.

Pressing the Alt key enables fast scrolling in the editor and Explorers. By default, fast scrolling uses a 5X speed multiplier but you can control the multiplier with the Editor: Fast Scroll Sensitivity ( editor.fastScrollSensitivity) setting.

Copy line up / down

Keyboard Shortcut: or

The commands Copy Line Up/Down are unbound on Linux because the VS Code default keybindings would conflict with Ubuntu keybindings, see Issue #509. You can still set the commands editor.action.copyLinesUpAction and editor.action.copyLinesDownAction to your own preferred keyboard shortcuts.

Move line up and down

Shrink / expand selection

You can learn more in the Basic Editing documentation.

Go to Symbol in File

You can group the symbols by kind by adding a colon, @:.

Go to Symbol in Workspace

Outline view

The Outline view in the File Explorer (default collapsed at the bottom) shows you the symbols of the currently open file.

You can sort by symbol name, category, and position in the file and allows quick navigation to symbol locations.

Undo cursor position

Trim trailing whitespace

Transform text commands

You can change selected text to uppercase, lowercase, and title case with the Transform commands from the Command Palette.

Code formatting

Code folding

You can also fold/unfold all regions in the editor with Fold All (⌘K ⌘0 (Windows, Linux Ctrl+K Ctrl+0)) and Unfold All (⌘K ⌘J (Windows, Linux Ctrl+K Ctrl+J)).

You can fold all block comments with Fold All Block Comments (⌘K ⌘/ (Windows, Linux Ctrl+K Ctrl+/)).

Select current line

Open Markdown preview

In a Markdown file, use

Side by side Markdown edit and preview

In a Markdown file, use

The preview and editor will synchronize with your scrolling in either view.

IntelliSense

You can view available methods, parameter hints, short documentation, etc.

Peek

Go to Definition

You can go back to your previous location with the Go > Back command or .

You can also see the type definition if you press Ctrl (Cmd on macOS) when you are hovering over the type.

Go to References

Find All References view

Rename Symbol

Select a symbol then type . Alternatively, you can use the context menu.

Search and modify

Besides searching and replacing expressions, you can also search and reuse parts of what was matched, using regular expressions with capturing groups. Enable regular expressions in the search box by clicking the Use Regular Expression .* button () and then write a regular expression and use parenthesis to define groups. You can then reuse the content matched in each group by using $1, $2, etc. in the Replace field.

.eslintrc.json

Install the ESLint extension. Configure your linter however you'd like. Consult the ESLint specification for details on its linting rules and options.

Here is configuration to use ES6.

package.json

See IntelliSense for your package.json file.

Emmet syntax

Support for Emmet syntax.

Snippets

Create custom snippets

File > Preferences > User Snippets ( Code > Preferences > User Snippets on macOS), select the language, and create a snippet.

See more details in Creating your own Snippets.

Git integration

Git integration comes with VS Code "out-of-the-box". You can install other SCM providers from the Extension Marketplace. This section describes the Git integration but much of the UI and gestures are shared by other SCM providers.

Diffs

From the Source Control view, select a file to open the diff.

Alternatively, click the Open Changes button in the top right corner to diff the current open file.
Views
The default view for diffs is the side by side view.

Toggle inline view by clicking the More Actions (...) button in the top right and selecting Toggle Inline View.

If you prefer the inline view, you can set "diffEditor.renderSideBySide": false.
Review pane Edit pending changes
You can make edits directly in the pending changes of the diff view.

Branches

Easily switch between Git branches via the Status Bar.

Staging
Stage file changes
Hover over the number of files and click the plus button.

Click the minus button to unstage changes.
Stage selected
Stage a portion of a file by selecting that file (using the arrows) and then choosing Stage Selected Ranges from the Command Palette.

Undo last commit

Click the (...) button and then select Undo Last Commit to undo the previous commit. The changes are added to the Staged Changes section.

See Git output

VS Code makes it easy to see what Git commands are actually running. This is helpful when learning Git or debugging a difficult source control issue.

Use the Toggle Output command () and select Git in the dropdown.

Gutter indicators

View diff decorations in editor. See documentation for more details.

Resolve merge conflicts

During a merge, go to the Source Control view (⌃⇧G (Windows, Linux Ctrl+Shift+G)) and make changes in the diff view.

You can resolve merge conflicts with the inline CodeLens which lets you Accept Current Change, Accept Incoming Change, Accept Both Changes, and Compare Changes.

Set VS Code as default merge tool

Set VS Code as default diff tool

Debugging

Configure debugger

Open the Command Palette (⇧⌘P (Windows, Linux Ctrl+Shift+P)) and select Debug: Open launch.json, which will prompt you to select the environment that matches your project (Node.js, Python, C++, etc). This will generate a launch.json file. Node.js support is built-in and other environments require installing the appropriate language extensions. See the debugging documentation for more details.

Breakpoints and stepping through

Place breakpoints next to the line number. Navigate forward with the Debug widget.

Data inspection

Inspect variables in the Run panels and in the console.

Inline values

You can set "debug.inlineValues": true to see variable values inline in the debugger. This feature can be expensive and may slow down stepping, so it is disabled by default.

Logpoints

Logpoints act much like breakpoints but instead of halting the debugger when they are hit, they log a message to the console. Logpoints are especially useful for injecting logging while debugging production servers that cannot be modified or paused.

Add a logpoint with the Add Logpoint command in the left editor gutter and it will be displayed as a "diamond" shaped icon. Log messages are plain text but can include expressions to be evaluated within curly braces ('{}').

Task runner

Auto detect tasks

Select Terminal from the top-level menu, run the command Configure Tasks, then select the type of task you'd like to run. This will generate a tasks.json file with content like the following. See the Tasks documentation for more details.

There are occasionally issues with auto generation. Check out the documentation for getting things to work properly.

Select Terminal from the top-level menu, run the command Run Task, and select the task you want to run. Terminate the running task by running the command Terminate Task

Define keyboard shortcuts for tasks

You can define a keyboard shortcut for any task. From the Command Palette (⇧⌘P (Windows, Linux Ctrl+Shift+P)), select Preferences: Open Keyboard Shortcuts File, bind the desired shortcut to the workbench.action.tasks.runTask command, and define the Task as args.

For example, to bind Ctrl+H to the Run tests task, add the following:

Run npm scripts as tasks from the Explorer

From the explorer you can open a script in the editor, run it as a task, and launch it with the node debugger (when the script defines a debug option like --inspect-brk). The default action on click is to open the script. To run a script on a single click, set npm.scriptExplorerAction to "run". Use the setting npm.exclude to exclude scripts in package.json files contained in particular folders.

With the setting npm.enableRunFromFolder, you can enable to run npm scripts from the File Explorer's context menu for a folder. The setting enables the command Run NPM Script in Folder... when a folder is selected. The command shows a Quick Pick list of the npm scripts contained in this folder and you can select the script to be executed as a task.

Portable mode

VS Code has a Portable mode which lets you keep settings and data in the same location as your installation, for example, on a USB drive.

Insiders builds

The Visual Studio Code team uses the Insiders version to test the latest features and bug fixes of VS Code. You can also use the Insiders version by downloading it here.

For Early Adopters - Insiders has the most recent code changes for users and extension authors to try out.

Frequent Builds - New builds every day with the latest bug fixes and features.

Side-by-side install - Insiders installs next to the Stable build allowing you to use either independently.

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Use a Package Manager

Install with Brew (Mac)

If you are on a Mac and have Homebrew installed:
Note for Mac OS X Mojave users: if you see "App can't be opened because Apple cannot check it for malicious software" when opening VSCodium the first time, you can right-click the application and choose Open. This should only be required the first time opening on Mojave.
Install with Windows Package Manager (WinGet)

If you use Windows and have Windows Package Manager installed:

Install with Chocolatey (Windows)

If you use Windows and have Chocolatey installed (thanks to @Thilas):

Install with Scoop (Windows)

If you use Windows and have Scoop installed:

Install with snap (Linux)

VSCodium is available in the Snap Store as Codium, published by the Snapcrafters community. If your GNU/Linux distribution has support for snaps:

Install with Package Manager (Linux)

Parrot OS:

VSCodium is pre-installed in Parrot OS.

In case you don't find it by default, you can retrieve it from the official Parrot repo

@paulcarroty has set up a repository for VSCodium. The instructions below are adapted from there. Any issues installing VSCodium using your package manager should be directed to that repository's issue tracker.

Debian / Ubuntu (deb package):

Add the GPG key of the repository:

Add the repository:

Update then install vscodium:

Fedora / Centos / OpenSUSE (rpm package):

Add the GPG key of the repository:

Add the repository:

Fedora/RHEL:

printf "[gitlab.com_paulcarroty_vscodium_repo] \n name=gitlab.com_paulcarroty_vscodium_repo \n baseurl=https://paulcarroty.gitlab.io/vscodium-deb-rpm-repo/rpms/ \n enabled=1 \n gpgcheck=1 \n repo_gpgcheck=1 \n gpgkey=https://gitlab.com/paulcarroty/vscodium-deb-rpm-repo/-/raw/master/pub.gpg" |sudo tee -a /etc/yum.repos.d/vscodium.repo

openSUSE/SUSE:

printf "[gitlab.com_paulcarroty_vscodium_repo] \n name=gitlab.com_paulcarroty_vscodium_repo \n baseurl=https://paulcarroty.gitlab.io/vscodium-deb-rpm-repo/rpms/ \n enabled=1 \n gpgcheck=1 \n repo_gpgcheck=1 \n gpgkey=https://gitlab.com/paulcarroty/vscodium-deb-rpm-repo/-/raw/master/pub.gpg" |sudo tee -a /etc/zypp/repos.d/vscodium.repo

Install the software:

Nix(OS)

VSCodium is available in Nixpkgs. You can install it by adding vscodium to environment.systemPackages in configuration.nix, or locally:

Arch Linux

VSCodium is available on the AUR (Arch User Repository), and can be installed with an AUR Helper.

Examples:

Flatpak Option (Linux)

VSCodium is (unofficially) available as a Flatpak app and here's the build repo. If your distribution has support for flatpak, and you have enabled the flathub repo, you can install VSCodium via the command line:

...or by opening the flatpakref file from Flathub. VSCodium can also be found in GNOME Software if you have gnome-software-plugin-flatpak installed (as recommended in the Flathub setup instructions).

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Overview

NameChanger is designed for the sole purpose of renaming a list of files. To install just download the zip, open it and drag the app to your Applications Folder.

Requirements

Designed for OS X 10.7+
For NameChanger on older versions of OS X see the Previous Versions section below.

How To

Add the files through the GUI or drag and drop files directly onto the App. These original filenames show up in the Original Filename column. Grayed out rows indicate files that you do not have permissions to change.As text is entered into the appropriate text fields the resulting filenames appear in the Renamed Filename column. As you type each row is updated to reflect the changes you will make.
Next select how to change the file names:
Finally click the Rename button, and all your files will be renamed as displayed. You will be informed of any files that could not be modified.

New in 3.4

Added Insert Characters rename type

New in 3.3

Added a recursive option for adding all files in a directory structure

New in 3.2

Case Change renaming is now significantly improved, particularly for large and remote files.

Added ability the Check/Uncheck selected files

Added ability to Check Every Other file

Improved file context menu: reveal multiple files in Finder, check/uncheck selected items

Upgraded Sparkle

Improved rename failure reporting

New in 3.1

Text File Renaming: Use a text file to specify input to the renaming functions

New in 3.0

History: Automatically keep a history of renames performed

Case Change rename: Upper case, lower case or title case

Updated UI, keeps all the renaming controls in the main window

Faster renames with smoother performance

Improved warnings interface makes it easier to find files that can't be renamed

EXIF dates can now use subseconds when available

Enter your own custom date formats

Randomize file ordering

NameChanger as a System Service: Right click a selection of files in Finder and choose Services > Rename with NameChanger

Full Screen support

Ability to add contents of selected folder, or hold Cmd during drag&drop to add folder contents

Advanced

Need more options renaming your files? Open the options pallet by clicking the Options button. From here you can hide the file extensions, ignore case, force uniqueness of resulting names or change the checked and selected files.
The checkbox to the left of each row allows you to choose which files will be renamed. This allows you to pull in a number of files once and rename subsets as you wish, without constantly adding and removing files. If the box is checked, the file will be changed, otherwise the file will go unaltered.
Hiding the extensions is often useful when you need to append something to the end of the filename, but not alter the file extension. Check the 'Hide Extensions' checkbox and rename as desired.
The Image Browser makes renaming pictures even simpler by allowing visual naming and reordering.

Previous Versions

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Introduction

Bulk Rename Utility: file renaming software for Windows. Bulk Rename Utility is free of charge for personal, private use, at home. To use Bulk Rename Utility within a business entity, company or for commercial purposes, a commercial license is required.

Bulk Rename Utility allows you to easily rename files and entire folders based upon extremely flexible criteria.

Add date/time stamps, replace numbers, insert text, convert case, add auto-numbers, process folders and sub-folders....plus a whole lot more!

Rename multiple files quickly, according to many flexible criteria. Learn More

Rename files in many ways: add, replace, insert text into file names. Convert case, add numbers. Remove or change file extensions.

Check the detailed preview before renaming.

Rename photos using EXIF metadata (i.e. "Date Picture Taken", "Resolution" and other information embedded in all JPG photo files) Rename your holiday pictures from a meaningless dsc1790.jpg to NewYork1.jpg in a flash.

Rename MP3 files using ID3 tags (a.k.a. MP3 ID3 tag renaming).

Rename files using Windows File Properties (e.g. media video length, width, height, rate, publisher, etc).

Change files' creation and modification time stamps.

Easy to Install. Download and start renaming your files now!

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