[Feature Request]: Easy way to create a project (VSC-737)

Hello all

I’m new in esp-idf

I try to create a project. but i can’t built it. i receive an error like

> Executing task: cmake -G Ninja .. <

CMake Error: The source directory "C:/hassan/wito-SmartWatch/ad5933" does not appear to contain CMakeLists.txt.
Specify --help for usage, or press the help button on the CMake GUI.
The terminal process "C:\WINDOWS\System32\cmd.exe /d /c cmake -G Ninja .." terminated with exit code: 1.

Terminal will be reused by tasks, press any key to close it.

any shortcut or any way to cerate a new project. I think it shuld be a command or an icon in status bar to do that.

thank you all.

[brianignacio5]

I understand no worries. With the extension commands you can create (basically copy from ESP-IDF examples) a new project with the structure already made and you just need to build flash and monitor as shown in the tutorials.

Just look at how the code is structured in the examples. Usually you code goes to the main directory. This is explained in ESP-IDF docs. You can think of a component like a library where you import stuff to your main code in main/src1.c . The CMake is a build system that resolves these directories as explained in the build system documentation

[hdpklm]

OK 👍👍

Thank you so mutch 💕

Have a nice day!