I use Visual Studio for development and I am quite used to Intellisense. But when writting CoffeeScript you don’t really get any Syntax Checking or Intellisense.
Is there a plugin for VS that would allow this?
Thanks
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I use Visual Studio for development and I am quite used to Intellisense. But when writting CoffeeScript you don’t really get any Syntax Checking or Intellisense.
Is there a plugin for VS that would allow this?
Thanks
You can’t have more than syntax checking/coloring with coffeescript (on any IDE) AFAIK.
As an alternative, you can use TypeScript to get the full Visual Studio tooling support (and stay close to the javascript), or some transcompilers that transform code to javascript, for C# there is Saltarelle and for CIL (.NET bytecode, so compatible with any .NET language), I just found JSIL but I have no idea how well it works.
Note than the generated code “look” can be important for debugging and using external libraries get a bit of work to be included in Typed languages.
For js code readability I would recommand TypeScript (similar to coffeescript, even easier, but less powerfull as a language).
Saltarelle code looks readable (didn’t tried a lot), for JSIL I have no idea.
A list of languages that compiles to JS: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/wiki/List-of-languages-that-compile-to-JS