vscode-css-languageservice

Language services for CSS, LESS and SCSS

Why?

The vscode-css-languageservice contains the language smarts behind the CSS, LESS and SCSS editing experience of Visual Studio Code
and the Monaco editor.

• doValidation analyses an input string and returns syntax and lint errors.
• doComplete provides completion proposals for a given location.
• doHover provides a hover text for a given location.
• findDefinition finds the definition of the symbol at the given location.
• findReferences finds all references to the symbol at the given location.
• findDocumentHighlights finds all symbols connected to the given location.
• findDocumentSymbols provides all symbols in the given document
• doCodeActions evaluates code actions for the given location, typically to fix a problem.
• findColorSymbols evaluates all color symbols in the given document
• doRename renames all symbols connected to the given location.
• getFoldingRanges returns folding ranges in the given document.

Installation

npm install --save vscode-css-languageservice

API

export interface LanguageService {
	configure(raw: LanguageSettings): void;
	doValidation(document: TextDocument, stylesheet: Stylesheet, documentSettings?: LanguageSettings): Diagnostic[];
	parseStylesheet(document: TextDocument): Stylesheet;
	doComplete(document: TextDocument, position: Position, stylesheet: Stylesheet): CompletionList;
	setCompletionParticipants(registeredCompletionParticipants: ICompletionParticipant[]): void;
	doHover(document: TextDocument, position: Position, stylesheet: Stylesheet): Hover, null;
	findDefinition(document: TextDocument, position: Position, stylesheet: Stylesheet): Location, null;
	findReferences(document: TextDocument, position: Position, stylesheet: Stylesheet): Location[];
	findDocumentHighlights(document: TextDocument, position: Position, stylesheet: Stylesheet): DocumentHighlight[];
	findDocumentSymbols(document: TextDocument, stylesheet: Stylesheet): SymbolInformation[];
	doCodeActions(document: TextDocument, range: Range, context: CodeActionContext, stylesheet: Stylesheet): Command[];
	doCodeActions2(document: TextDocument, range: Range, context: CodeActionContext, stylesheet: Stylesheet): CodeAction[];
	findDocumentColors(document: TextDocument, stylesheet: Stylesheet): ColorInformation[];
	getColorPresentations(document: TextDocument, stylesheet: Stylesheet, color: Color, range: Range): ColorPresentation[];
	doRename(document: TextDocument, position: Position, newName: string, stylesheet: Stylesheet): WorkspaceEdit;
	getFoldingRanges(document: TextDocument, context?: { rangeLimit?: number; }): FoldingRange[];
	getSelectionRanges(document: TextDocument, positions: Position[], stylesheet: Stylesheet): SelectionRange[];
}

export interface LanguageSettings {
	validate?: boolean;
	lint?: any;
}

Development

Note: All CSS entites (properties, at-rules, etc) are sourced from https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-custom-data/tree/master/web-data and transpiled here. For adding new property or fixing existing properties' completion/hover description, please open PR there).

How can I run and debug this node module?

• clone, npm install
• open the folder in VSCode.
• set breakpoints, e.g. in cssCompletion.ts
• run JUnit tests from the debug viewlet and wait until a breakpoint is hit:
  

In VSCode:

• run VSCode out of sources as described here: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/wiki/How-to-Contribute
  • in the instance run from sources open a .css file
• open a VSCode on the VSCode source
  • run command Debug: Attach to Node process and pick the process with the css-language-features path
  • Set a breakpoint in extensions/css-language-features/server/node_modules/vscode-css-languageservice/lib/umd/services/cssCompletion.js
• in the instance run from sources invoke code completion in the .css file
• use yarn link vscode-css-languageservice in extensions/css-language-features/server to run VSCode with your changes to vscode-css-languageservice

License

(MIT License)

Copyright 2016, 2019 Microsoft

With the exceptions of build/mdn-documentation.js, which is built upon content from Mozilla Developer Network
and distributed under CC BY-SA 2.5.