Installation

Prerequisites

Before installing the Slither extension for Visual Studio Code, you must install:

• Slither as an accessible command line tool: visit Slither's GitHub Page for more information.
• Visual Studio Code
• Optional: Any desired build/test frameworks supported by Slither, such as Truffle.

Installation

From Visual Studio Marketplace

In order to install the Slither extension for Visual Studio Code from the marketplace:

• Open Visual Studio Code
• Click on the Extensions icon on the action bar
• Search for "Slither" and a result should appear from the publisher "Trail of Bits".
• Install the extension and reload Visual Studio Code.

From Source Code

In order to install the Slither extension for Visual Studio Code from source:

• You must have npm installed.
• Clone this repository
• Open the repository in Visual Studio Code
• In the menu, click Terminal -> New Terminal and type npm i into the resulting terminal to install all dependencies.
• To run the extension in debug mode, you can simply click F5, creating a new Visual Studio Code window with the extension activated.
• To run the extension in release mode:
  • Ensure vsce is installed with npm install -g vsce
  • Run the vsce package command within the Visual Studio Code terminal to create a VSIX package within the root of the repository directory.
  • VSIX files can then be installed in the Extensions tab of Visual Studio Code, under the ... menu.