Google Apps Script for VS Code

Rocket charge your Google Apps Script (.gs) development with this all-in-one extension.

We provide full syntax highlighting, smart completion (IntelliSense), code navigation (Go to Definition, Find All References), and a comprehensive snippet library to make writing GAS scripts faster and easier than ever.

✨ Features

🎨 Beautiful Syntax Highlighting

• proper highlighting for .gs files (treated as JavaScript).
• Custom Tokenization: Instantly recognizes global Google Apps Script classes like SpreadsheetApp, DriveApp, GmailApp, and Logger.

🧠 Intelligent Autocomplete (IntelliSense)

• Forget looking up documentation for every method!
• Includes a command to automatically configure type definitions for your project.
• Type SpreadsheetApp. and see getActiveSpreadsheet(), openById(), and more with full documentation tooltips.

⚡ Power Snippets

Dozens of built-in snippets for common triggers and services:

• Triggers: onOpen, onEdit, doGet, doPost
• Services: DriveApp, MailApp, UrlFetchApp, PropertiesService
• UI: ui:alert, ui:prompt
• Utilities: Date formatting, JDBC connections, and more.

🧭 Code Navigation

Navigate your GAS projects like a pro — works across all .gs files in your workspace.

Feature	Shortcut (Mac / Windows)	Description
Go to Definition	Cmd+Click / Ctrl+Click or F12	Jump to where a function, class, or variable is defined
Find All References	Shift+F12	See every usage of a symbol across your project
Document Symbols	Cmd+Shift+O / Ctrl+Shift+O	Browse all functions & variables in the current file (Outline & Breadcrumbs)
Workspace Symbols	Cmd+T / Ctrl+T	Search for any symbol across the entire workspace

🚀 Getting Started

1. Include .gs files in your project.
2. Run the Setup Command:
   • Open Command Palette (Cmd+Shift+P / Ctrl+Shift+P)
   • Run: Google Apps Script: Enable IntelliSense
3. Start coding with full autocomplete support!

📦 Snippet Cheat Sheet

Trigger	Snippet Prefix	Description
Open Trigger	onOpen	Creates the onOpen(e) function
Spreadsheet	ss:active	SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSheet()
Drive	drive:create	Creates a new file in Drive
HTTP Request	http:get	UrlFetchApp.fetch(url)
Logging	log	Logger.log()

🔧 Requirements

• VS Code ^1.90.0

📝 Notes

This extension leverages the @types/google-apps-script package for IntelliSense. The setup command creates a jsconfig.json in your workspace root to enable this configuration automatically.

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