A VS code extension and toolbox to debugging a chaincode. The extension once installed can be used by developers of chaincode to run and debug, understand how it behaves.
- Develop a plugin that can be installed and run on any developer machine.
- Ideally, one should be able to develop on any operating system, be it a Mac, Windows, or any of the Linux variant.
- Debug the chaincode as the developers are used to writing their code.
- Option to initialize the state database so that the debugging can be effective. -- Do not worry if you're new to Hyperledger Fabric.
- Goal is for the chaincode to be deployment ready at the end.
- Come up with a package manager, so that the developers can export what they have as a chaincode package that can be deployed.
- Define a secure and minimal container image that is safer for deployment engineers to pull in the binary and deploy it.
- Understand what plugins mean.
- Understand how VS code plugin development works.
- Learn Hyperledger Fabric fundamentals.
- Learn debugging skills.
- It can get more and more tricky when you start reading the project objectives.
While this is pretty new territory, there could be more in future to this list. At the least you will get exposure to the following
Containers and container orchestration engines, Hyperledger Fabric as a blockchain protocol, smart contract development in Hyperledger Fabric, VS code plugin development concepts, expertise in Java, Go and other programming languages and much more.