JavaScript

Vison (GitHub: Quramy/vison) by Yosuke Kurami is a plugin for writing JSON schema files. It handles completion for keys and values, and works with downloadable JSON schemas that are intended to be used for auto-completion.

This week I tried out Visual Studio Code (VSCode), a new editor from Microsoft that has features focused on web development. One of the cool things about it is it brings IntelliSense to JavaScript developers, and it’s cross platform as well — it supports Mac OS X, Linux, and…

JavaScript is moving pretty fast, so you might find Vim’s built-in syntax lags behind the latest standards and APIs. YAJS: Yet Another JavaScript Syntax by othree is an extended version of jelera/vim-javascript-syntax. It includes support for ES6, web APIs, and DOM keywords.

If you’ve got a colleague who just can’t stop messing up whitespace, then you may want to politely suggest (or surreptitiously install) Laurent Georget’s ShowSpaces (GitHub: guiniol/vim-showspaces)…

vim-http-client (GitHub: aquach/vim-http-client) is a simple HTTP client for Vim. You can specify requests using plain text, and the script will generate a request that is managed by a Python script.

I don’t know if Vim-inspired aesthetics is a thing, but some people are definitely console fetishists. Ideas from Vim and text-based UIs make their way into web software, and a great example of this is Treed (GitHub: jaredly / treed, License: Apache 2.0) by Jared Forsyth.

jdaddy.vim (GitHub: tpope / vim-jdaddy, License: MIT) by Tim Pope is a set of useful mappings for working with JSON.

Vimtronner

Vimtronner from Carbon Five is an online multiplayer game for learning Vim. It requires Node, and the controls are entirely based around…

Making JavaScript Strings

When I was at Vim London on Tuesday, Jack Franklin gave a talk about writing plugins. He said that when you find…