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As WTP editors have been in a bad shape (out-of-date, not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,