ENGINE

Running VSCode in the Godot Engine

Overview

This is a proof of concept of embedding the VSCode text editor in the Godot Engine.

Features:

  • Authenticate
  • Edit Code
  • Terminal
  • Change Color themes
  • Plugins
  • Copilot
  • etc.

Basically everything the regular editor would.

How to get it? Right now, it will be built into Gonuts, the custom Godot editor with extra features. In future, it will also be a separate GDExtension.

Implementation

For implementation, the Visual Studio Code Editor is actually a webview rendering the page https://vscode.dev. When the Engine starts, it runs the command: code tunnel. Then, the vscode web version connects to that.

This is done by using:

  • a modified version of doceazedo/godot_wry for the webview
  • a modified version of markeel/gdterm for terminal handling
  • a custom written module that creates and handles the vscode webpage.

Notes

  • This is still work in progress, but will update this page next week sometime when I will have a public build working. Right now I have it working locally.