Discovering the UI
Cloud IDE
Desktop IDE
Get familiar with the Anypoint Code Builder UI and elements to design, develop, and deploy APIs and integrations.
| 1 | Activity Bar: Use VS Code Activity Bar items as you work on your projects. Mouse over the items to find their names:
In addition to Anypoint Code Builder (MuleSoft icon), commonly used items in the Activity Bar include:
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| 2 | Anypoint Code Builder (MuleSoft icon): Open the Anypoint Code Builder panel to start a project. Follow the tutorials to get started with API specification design, implementation, and integration development in Anypoint Code Builder. |
| 3 | Quick Actions: Start an API specification, implementation, or integration project. |
| 4 | Settings: Set Anypoint Code Builder configurations, including the US or EU cloud for your IDE. Select the cloud where your Anypoint Platform user account resides. |
Compare Project UIs in the IDE
The UIs of the web and desktop IDEs share the same structure.
Integration and implementation projects are Mule applications with similar UIs:
| 1 | Explorer: Open a workspace for your project. |
| 2 | Editors: Develop your project in the canvas and configuration XML files. Configuration XML files support auto-completion. |
| 3 | Status Bar: Check for your user name to learn if you are logged in to Anypoint Platform. |
| 4 | Output Panel: As your projects run in Anypoint Code Builder, view output and logs from Mule DX Server. Open the built-in command terminal. View problems and ports.
See Developing Integrations and Implementing APIs for more detail. |
API design projects include a service for mocking endpoints in the API Console:
| 1 | Editor: Configure API specification project files. This editor supports auto-completion. |
| 2 | API Console: Test endpoints on your examples.
See Designing API Specs and Fragments for more detail. |
Use Auto-Completion Menus
The IDE supports auto-completion through the Anypoint Code Builder extensions and through IntelliSense, a built-in code-completion feature of VS Code, to provide auto-completion in Editor views.
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Open auto-completion options from the Editor view using one of the following options:
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Using IntelliSense: Press Ctrl+Space to display a list of available options, and enter a search term to narrow the results, for example:
IntelliSense shows different options, depending on the context, for example:
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Using the extensions: Place your cursor at the location where you intend to use the auto-suggestion menu, and optionally, start typing to narrow the list of suggested options to return. If the line has some content, click Tab, provide a space, or start typing after the content on the line. To close the auto-suggestion menu, click Escape.
For API design, you can enable or disable auto-completion:
Show me how
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Open the Extensions panel from the activity bar by clicking the
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Right-click the extension Anypoint Code Builder - API Extension, and select Extensions Settings.
This action opens the Settings tab to the configuration for the extension, @ext:salesforce.mule-dx-api-component.
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In the Settings tab, enable the API design editor to suggest auto-completion options.
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Optionally, set a time in milliseconds to wait before listing auto-completion options.
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Use the arrow keys to navigate the list.
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Press Enter or Tab to insert the selected element.
Auto-complete adds the element to the code and places the cursor for you to add values.
For more information, see IntelliSense in the VS Code documentation.
