Introduction Since Dapr first launched almost two years ago, the developer experience has been a key area of focus for the project. Our goal is to help developers write Dapr applications, debug them, and easily access relevant information about the Dapr sidecar in developers’ local environments and using their tools of choice. Seeing as Visual Studio Code (VS Code) is one of the most commonly used code editors, we introduced the VS Code Dapr extension - designed to help VS Code developers build Dapr-enabled applications.