JavaScript Development Tools
JavaScript Development Tools's provides a framework for development of JavaScript applications,
with full support for editing, refactoring, and searching.
- Editor capabilities:
- Syntax highlighting
- Code folding
- Configurable formatting
- Code completion
- Content assist
- Variable/function resolution
- Resolution Context
- Quick fix
- syntax checking/error display
- Hover help/tips
- Occurences marking
- open selected item
- highlight matching parenthesis/brace/bracket
- add/remove/generate comment
- Typing helpers:
- Automatically close strings, parentheses, brackets,etc
- Automatically insert semicolons, braces
- automatic formatting
- Refactoring
- method- rename, move, delete, change signature
- var - rename, move, delete
- class (inferred) rename, move up/down
- Javadoc support (or JSDoc)
- Externalize strings (NLS support)
- Class hierarchy view
- Call hierarchy view
- Script explorer view
- Search references/declarations
- Preferences:
- Appearance
- Templates
- Formatting
- Validation options
- Error/Warning levels
- Editor options
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