SAS External Editor - Running SAS code on external editor

[MattWork]

As a former programmer and current SAS user, I find the UI of SAS very basic and unconfigurable for my liking. I would love to be able to run SAS code the same way in another popular code editor such as VS Code. There are some plugins for recognizing and auto-filling syntax, which is good but not enough. The problem comes down to running bits of SAS code for smaller tasks and entire SAS files for big tasks, I am less certain how to implement this in VS Code, I know VS Code uses configuration files like tasks.json that could be helpful, but I am less familiar with how to set these up. I was hoping that you could provide a guide on how to run SAS code on an external editor (VS code in my case) for SAS (9.4 Foundation in my case) installed locally. Even better, if you could develop a plugin for VS Code that would be amazing!

[SASKiwi]

Seek and you shall find: DevOps with VS Code, GIT, and SASjs - SAS Support Communities

[AllanBowe]

As @SASKiwi mentions, we've built a plugin for VS Code that currently allows you to highlight and run, or run an entire program in Viya.

We plan to extend support to SAS 9 EBI and Base SAS soon.

In the meantime you have two further options for running code:

1.  Use the SASjs CLI in terminal - https://cli.sasjs.io/run/
2.  Use the editor in SASjs Server (a REST API and Studio editor over Foundation SAS) - https://github.com/sasjs/server

If you need help setting up, feel free to send a private message.

[Patrick]

Other options are Atom or Jupyter Notebook.

https://blogs.sas.com/content/sasdummy/2016/04/24/how-to-run-sas-programs-in-jupyter-notebook/ 

https://www.sas.com/content/dam/SAS/support/en/sas-global-forum-proceedings/2019/3262-2019.pdf

https://atom.io/packages/language-sas