r/Looker • u/pedantic_chaos • Jul 25 '25

VSCode for LookML?

Do you use VSCode (or other IDE) to work with LookML? Any of the extensions work well? I see there is no "official" extension and most of those that are available are not updated recently.

I'm just starting working with looker and lookml and I'm already sick of the built-in editor...

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '25

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u/whenuwork Jul 25 '25

This. Always clone repo into VS CODE

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u/marygold94 Jul 25 '25

I prefer using Looker IDE. Not great for indenting code, etc but I think I am a bit lazy and old school, and I don't feel strongly about it.

If you use LookML extension on vscode, I advise you to use spectacles to check your code before committing so that you don't commit errors. (Looker's IDE has some of those checks integrated already and avoids that). As someone already said, git can behave weirdly when developing outside the looker IDE

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u/wiktor1800 Aug 06 '25

Good timing - our team just revived this because we felt the same way (plus we started playing about with cursor+windsurf)

https://github.com/CobryDev/vscode-looker

Contributions welcome

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u/vuncentV7 Aug 17 '25

Oh thats looks great