Hi JBoss guys,
I'm the creator of AngularJS Eclipse and Mickael Istria suggested me to
contact you.
I have seen that you have spoken about AngluarJS Eclipse at
http://lists.jboss.org/pipermail/jbosstools-dev/2013-December/008450.html
At first, I would like to apologize because Max pinged me on tweeter and I
have not seen that-( Sorry!
I would like to answer about some comments :
It provides ng-* completion which we do too. And IMO ours is better
since we provide context-dependent code completion.
For example we suggest count/when/... attributes only for ng-pluralize
directives (<ANY ng-pluralize> or <ng-pluralize>)
Or ng-maxlength only for input directives. Or we don't suggest ng-app if
it's already defined in any parent tag. Etc. So we analyze the context
when calculating what can be suggested in the particular place.
Except for "ng-app if it's already defined in any parent tag", AngularJS
Eclipse manages that :
See screenshots at
https://github.com/angelozerr/angularjs-eclipse/wiki/HTML-Directives
More it works too with custom directive : see screenshots at
https://github.com/angelozerr/angularjs-eclipse/wiki/HTML-Directives#wiki...
It does not provide code completion for {{}} expressions which we plan
to
do in JBT 4.2.
Today it supports it. See screenshots at
https://github.com/angelozerr/angularjs-eclipse/wiki/HTML-Features#wiki-a...
The upstream project
https://github.com/angelozerr/tern.java/wiki/Tern-Eclipse-IDE is
supposed to provide some angular specific code completion in *.js files
but I couldn't manage to make it work.
It seems that it's a problem with
node.js Please
read
https://github.com/angelozerr/tern.java/wiki/Tern-Eclipse-IDE-Node.js<...
Completion is done for angular model (angular.module, etc) but too with the
injection of controller scope and directive (should be improved again). See
screenshots
at
https://github.com/angelozerr/angularjs-eclipse/wiki/Javascript-Features&...
AngularJS Eclipse extends the WTP HTML Editor (I don't have created a new
HTML editor).
I would like tell you about pros and cons for using tern :
The cons for using tern :
* needs node.js
* written in Javascript, so it's difficult to debug it with Eclipse. But
tern works in the browser, so I use Chrome to develop the angular plugin.
The pros for using tern :
* very powerful. It manages complex case. See demo at
http://ternjs.net/doc/demo.html
* tern provides plugin/defintions for ecma5, jquery, node, angular.
* tern is very extensible, so you can create your own tern
definition/plugin like I have done with AngularJS. I use tern in HTML
Editor (see
https://github.com/angelozerr/angularjs-eclipse/wiki/HTML-Features) and
Javascript Editor (
https://github.com/angelozerr/angularjs-eclipse/wiki/Javascript-Features).
* tern can be executed in a browser. This feature can be very interesting
in some case. For instance I'm developping a tern plugin to manage AlloYUi
a javascript framework used by Liferay (see online demo with CodeMirror at
http://codemirror-java.opensagres.eu.cloudbees.net/codemirror-javascript/...).
My idea is that you could use this AlloYUi plugin inside Eclipse IDE and
inside the Liferay Portal.
* as tern is written in Javascript, the community is very big.
Hope my information will be useful for you.
Regards Angelo