vacuum OpenAPI linter for VSCode

The world's fastest OpenAPI linter

This is a VSCode extension that allows you to use the world's fastest OpenAPI linter inside VSCode.

Install vacuum

If you don't have vacuum installed, make sure you do that first (requires v0.9.1 or later).

vacuum does not come bundled with the plugin.

npm install -g @quobix/vacuum

Or via yarn using yarn global add @quobix/vacuum

You can also use homebrew to install vacuum on MacOS X

brew install daveshanley/vacuum/vacuum

See more installation options.

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Enabling vacuum

vacuum starts automatically when you open YAML or JSON files.

You can also open up the command palette and type vacuum and select Lint OpenAPI using vacuum.

YAML and JSON files will be automatically detected (if they are OpenAPI) and linted using vacuum.

Disabling vacuum

If you want to disable vacuum, open up the command palette and type vacuum and select Stop Linting OpenAPI using vacuum.

Executable path

The extension uses the vacuum executable installed on your machine. If VSCode cannot find vacuum on PATH, set vacuum.executablePath to the full path of the executable.

Configuration

To configure vacuum to use your own rules, rulesets and custom functions, you can provide a configuration file.

You can also configure the extension from VS Code:

1. Open the command palette.
2. Run Select vacuum Ruleset or Select vacuum Ignore File.
3. Pick the ruleset or ignore file to save it into the workspace settings.

The extension supports these workspace settings:

{
  "vacuum.ruleset": "path/to/ruleset.yaml",
  "vacuum.ignoreFile": "path/to/ignore.yaml",
  "vacuum.functions": "path/to/functions",
  "vacuum.base": "path/to/api/root",
  "vacuum.remote": true,
  "vacuum.skipCheck": false,
  "vacuum.timeout": 5,
  "vacuum.lookupTimeout": 500,
  "vacuum.hardMode": false,
  "vacuum.extensionRefs": false
}

Configuration changes are sent to the running language server and open documents are linted again automatically.

Documentation

Learn more about vacuum by visiting the vacuum documentation.

vacuum documentation vacuum online demo