Hi all,
I'd like to share with you some progress about the TM4E and LSP4E
projects. Both projects are actually targeting to allow easy
implementation of rich editors reusing external resources and to reduce
and factorize maintenance effort.
As WTP editors have been in a bad shape (out-of-date, not comfortable,
reviews pending for a while....) for several years now, we've started to
look at how TM4E and LSP4E, with the right language servers, can allow
to have a better web development story in Eclipse IDE than what WTP is
currently offering.
Here is the result:
*
https://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/bluesky-web-development-eclipse-ide-experimental
* https://github.com/mickaelistria/eclipse-bluesky
* http://www.screencast.com/t/BaC9DxHIqD
It's relying on VSCode language servers for HTML, CSS, SCSS, SASS, LESS,
JSON and on
https://github.com/sourcegraph/javascript-typescript-langserver for JS
and TS.
It took me about a couple of weeks to bind those with LSP4E and to work
on the packaging part (which is actually the only necessary part when
dealing with Language Servers). All the features are provided by the
language servers and are presented in Eclipse IDE thanks to LSP4E.
Please have a look, give it a try and provide feedback. Contributions
(bug reports, code, whatever) are entirely welcome at every layer of
that work: on Platform UI, in LSP4E, in BlueSky integration, in language
servers directly.
Now, let's just face *the* question: wouldn't it make more sense for our
community, "products" and users, to start dropping the unmaintained-like
WTP editors and to consider this alternative as an official replacement
and to adopt the language server/generic editor approach which happens
to work well?
Cheers,
--
Mickael Istria
Eclipse developer for Red Hat Developers <http://developers.redhat.com>
My blog <http://mickaelistria.wordpress.com> - My Tweets
<http://twitter.com/mickaelistria>
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