Re: [wtp-dev] Alternative to WTP editors with TM4E and LSP4E

[Lars Vogel <lars.vogel@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Mickael, looks great. I personally would love to see the old
WTP editors replaced with this approach.

Best regards, Lars

On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 6:01 PM, Mickael Istria <mistria@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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 As WTP editors have been in a bad shape (out-of-date, not comfortable,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
> My blog - My Tweets
>
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