Step-by-step instructions for configuring a project to use AppMap and using the main features.
Once you’ve configured AppMap for a project, commit the file changes to Git so that your colleagues don’t have to do the setup themselves.
The AppMap view shows all AppMaps in your open projects. You can open it from the top level menu (View -> Open view… -> AppMap), with an AppMap action or by clicking on its icon in the side bar.
AppMaps are organized by how they were created (request recording, remote recording, test case recording).
Within the AppMap tree view you can
You can also use the tree view buttons to Filter the AppMap tree by name, or search for a specific AppMap. There are also extension commands to do this.
AppMap can find automatically find software design flaws that impact security, performance, stability, and maintainability. When a problem is found, it’s listed here. Click on the problem to get detailed information about it.
All the HTTP server requests, SQL queries, packages, classes, and functions that are present in an AppMap are listed here in a tree view. You can navigate through these code objects to see what’s present in your project. Click on any code object to open the AppMaps that contain it.
To open the list of AppMap extension actions, press CTRL+SHIFT+P
or COMMAND+SHIFT+P
on macOS and type AppMap
.
Most of the command names should be self-explanatory. Here are a few commands which are a bit more complicated:
Accounts
feature of VSCode.Guard
(Ruby), grunt
or gulp
(JS) to re-run the test cases as they are touched.You can make a remote recording from within the VSCode IDE. First, start your application with remote recording enabled. Exactly how to do this depends the language you’re using - consult the agent reference for details.
To start a recording, click the remote recording button, or use the command AppMap: Start a Remote Recording.
Interact with your app through its UI or API. Then use the stop remote recording button again, or use the command AppMap: Stop the Remote Recording.
You’ll be prompted to save the AppMap to a file, and it will be opened.
For more details about remote recording, see:
https://github.com/getappmap/vscode-appland