Code, Write.

28 June 2018 – 4 July 2018

This is a backdated post. This is going to be fun. So, last week I had textDocument/formatting working so you can now fix some/all of your code linting issues. This week it was the time to begin development of the vscode plugin for the coala-ls, so you, yes YOU, can use coala more efficiently via the coala-ls I was developing. The good news is we do not need many changes to the existing vs-code client, the one @gaocegege developed back in the day. The worst part is vscode plugin needs to be written in TypeScript. I have not been a big user or proponent of node, so I never really learnt this famous type checked flavor of JavaScript. Well, its apparent now I think, I will have to learn at least some TS. So, here we go, this is a brief of all the developments happened during the week.

Developments

• textDocument/formatting: Completed the support for formatting, coala-ls now has docs, tests and complete support for formatting.
• coala-vs-code cleanup: Earlier the repository used to contain a language server built specifically for vscode, from now on it will be used to host the language server client. Repository wide clean up is thus required.
• coala-vs-code extension Improves the extension by allowing to be user/workspace configurable, currently supports coalals.maxWorkers and coalals.tcpPort. It also is invoked for all the supported languages. This filter will further finished during phase 3 when some cEP proposals are implemented.
• Completed cEP Finally, the long standing cEP is now complete and has been put up for review. The cEP is about optimizing coala core for being better compatible with language server. The current proposal is so designed to produce minimal changes to the coala core. It is now cEP-0028.

To summarize, I worked with node, TS, completed my cEP and got the vscode client working in both TCP and IO modes.

Originally published on 10 July 2018 at https://ksdme.github.io.