Try a feature without installing anything. Pick an example, change its JSON, and press Run preview: the feature is placed into a small bench world right here in your browser, by the same engine the VS Code extension and the featurelab command use, and drawn in the same 3D view.
places_feature, say — and those are examples on this site too, they are loaded with it and listed under the editor. Rename one and it is unresolved, exactly as it would be in your pack.It runs one file and the examples it names. Your own pack — its blocks, biomes, structure files and the rest of its features — needs the extension or the CLI, and blocks here are drawn in flat colours rather than with their textures.
features/scatter_pumpkin_patch.json Also loaded, because this file names them: features/single_block_pumpkin.json