#vs-code

Ditching the Dinosaur Files: Why Your Modern RPG Source Code Deserves a Swanky IFS Pad Instead of Those Crusty Old AS/400 Source Files Ahoy, fellow IBM i adventurers! If you’ve been lurking in the shadowy realms of AS/400 development long enough, you know the drill: punching code into those venerable source physical files like QRPGSRC feels like time-traveling back to the 1980s. Picture this,…

In a world where build automation is a mystical art, one brave warrior dares to conquer the realm of “RULES.mk” config files with Visual Studio Code and IBM i. Join us on this thrilling adventure! Step 1: Prepare for Battle (Install the Necessary Extensions) Gather your trusty steed (Visual Studio Code) and equip it with the following extensions: Code for IBM i – Powerful VSCode Extension…

Visual Studio Code (VS Code) for IBM i can be easily used to create modules, bind RPGs, and ILE programs. It’s not hard to move from SEU to this IDE and it brings numerous advantages. Here are some of the primary benefits: Improved Productivity: VS Code provides a modern, intuitive, and feature-rich development environment that can significantly boost productivity. Its syntax highlighting, code…

If you have read any of my previous blogs about IBM i Programming, the chances are, you know I’m becoming a bit of a VS-Code fanboy… or maybe Fanman… well… probably fangeezer is most accurate. Over the couple of months, we’ve seen some really neat updates to the Code for IBM i and other related IBM i extensions for us i-developers. Quite surprisingly, IBM have joined the VS-Code game, and helped…

How to install Visual Studio Code for IBM i

What is VISUAL STUDIO CODE? Microsoft Visual Studio Code, “a free-editor that helps the programmer write code, helps in debugging and corrects the code using the intelli-sense method”: Visual Studio Code is a lightweight but powerful source code editor which runs on your desktop and is available for Windows, macOS and Linux. It comes with built-in support for JavaScript, TypeScript and Node.js…

Null/Undefined Check in Typescript

Tested on:Node.js 14.17.3Typescript 4.3.5ConclusionTo check whether an object is null or undefined, use either: if (a == null) { } or if (a) { } Few gotcha with both approaches:1. Both approaches will not cover the case when let a = '' or let a: string = ''.2. The second approach will fail when a is unexpectedly boolean value, ie: let a = false. I personally prefer more explicit approach and…