10:05 a.m.
Hi JBoss guys,
Hey Angelo!
I'm the creator of AngularJS Eclipse and Mickael Istria suggested
me
to
contact you.
Yes :)
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!
no worries - you are here now ;)
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...
and it does that without *running* the project javascript ? that is pure
tern parsed ?
if yes - that is nice!
I thought there were things in angularjs context that would not be
possible to extract from javascript?
Saying this in context of our experiment where we actually ask the
browser what is in the angular scope
at runtime....but maybe these two approaches could simply be merged and
we get best of both worlds?
> 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<...
I tried installing OSX osgi bundle provided node.js and it seems to NPE
for me ;/
I thought I actually saw this working but that might have been earlier
version.
I think the default should be that out of box Tern/angularjs integration
should use the bundled one and
then advanced users can decide use native one...optimally default users
should not have to care about
it is using node.
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).
Yeah, what I would like to enable is that we don't need
"yet-another-editor" but could just
have this enable in jboss tools existing html editor (or even JSDT html
editor but thats far off yet ;)
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.
Yeah, you basically outline the same exact reasons why I think trying to
use Tern as a
backend for JSDT is a bit weird, but more sustainable/maintainable than
writing/extending
the java based parser.
It just needs some enduser polish (i.e. users should not need to care
about different html editors,
different node.js runtimes, it should "just work").
Hope my information will be useful for you.
Yes definitely.
One concern we had was performance and portability.
Does Tern handle larger projects of javascript well ? Can we avoid it
have to parse
constantly ? can one just tell it to parse one file as oppose to all
files all the time ?
Have you found the bundled binaries to work across various OS's ?
/max
http://about.me/maxandersen