MoonBit VSCode Plugin

MoonBit VSCode Plugin#

MoonBit provides a plugin for Visual Studio Code, available in the Visual Studio MarketPlace and Open VSX Registry.

Commands#

The plugin provides several commands, available through command palettes

  • Select backend: It allows you to switch between several backends

  • Restart MoonBit language server: It allows you to restart the language server, in case it's unresponsive or has some stale state.

  • Install MoonBit toolchain: Manually triggers the installation process. The extension will check if the installed MoonBit toolchain matches the extension's version.

  • Get lsp's compiler version: It will display the MoonBit compiler version used by the extension.

  • Toggle multiline string: It can help switching the chosen text between a plain text and the MoonBit's multiline string syntax

Actions#

The plugin also provides several actions, available through quick fix

  • Add missing arms: It allows you to fill up the branches of a match expression when encountering Error 0011

Code Lens#

The plugin provides code lens for each top-level code block, especially test blocks.

The provided functionalities are:

  • Format: format the code block

  • Test / Bench: test or bench the test block

  • Debug (JavaScript backend only): test the test block with debugger

  • Update: update the snapshot tests in the code block

  • Trace: turn on/off the tracing of the test block where each assignment will have the value rendered next to it

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