Posit Publisher lets you deploy projects to Connect from VSCode.
Key concepts:
- Publisher is a VSCode extension that presents a UI within the VSCode sidebar.
- Deployment options are set via configuration files in
.posit/publish/. - Records of where you have deployed are kept in
.posit/publish/deployments.
Supported features:
- Deploy projects to Connect
- UI available as a VSCode extension
- Configuration-file based workflow
- Configuration schema enables editing with the Even Better TOML VSCode extension
- Python content: APIs, applications, and notebooks
- Quarto content: .qmd and .Rmd files. Support for embedded Shiny apps
- R content: Shiny apps, RMarkdown, Plumber APIs, and Rmd with embedded Shiny apps
- Automatic detection of client R, Python and Quarto versions
- Dependencies from requirements.txt and/or renv.lock files
- Automatic creation of a minimal requirements.txt file if needed, by scanning imports and mapping them to package names/versions installed in the local Python library path.
- Collaborate via git, or by downloading a source bundle from Connect
- Pre-flight checking of settings before deploying to Connect
- Verification that deployed apps can successfully start
What's not supported yet but is on our to-do list:
- Deploy to servers other than Connect
- Show more information in the UI such as changes since last deployment
- Inject secrets as environment variables
- More metadata such as tags, thumbnail image, etc
- Configure permissions for sharing
- Option to export a
manifest.jsonfor compatibility with prior tool - Schedule reports
- Streamlined
update deploymentcommand in VSCode command palette - Support VSCode windows with multiple workspaces, or deploy from a subdirectory of the workspace
- Better error handling
See the Installation page.
See the VSCode Extension page.
See the Configuration Reference page.
See the Licenses page.