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Show HN: Weekend project - VS2010 CoffeeScript syntax highlighting

39 points by chrisb 15y ago

statictype 15y ago
How is Window's support for CoffeeScript? Does the compiler run on Windows? What I would really like is to be able to run the compiler from code, allowing me to keep .coffee files on the server and compile/cache them into javascript when browsers request them.
- dualogy 15y ago
  The CoffeeScript compiler is written in CoffeeScript so you can run it wherever you have a JavaScript runtime running. So easy to compile in the browser if eval()ing the compilation result is acceptable. (There's some fancy <script type="text/coffeescript"> or some such example on the CoffeeScript project homepage) Server-side on Windows... not sure, IronJS / JScript.NET I believe?
- amirshim 15y ago
  sure... you can run coffeescript on node on windows, see: http://blog.tatham.oddie.com.au/2011/03/16/node-js-on-windows/ http://blog.tatham.oddie.com.au/2011/03/16/node-js-on-window... And if you don't want to use vs2010, there is also gedit on windows which has support for coffeescript. As for online, what I do is I have an online coffeescript editor (http://ace.ajax.org/ http://ace.ajax.org/), and when I save a file (with extension .coffee), compile it to js in the browser and save both the original .coffee file and .js file back to the server.
- chrisb 15y ago
  Not quite what you are asking for, but I've recently started using the Chirpy VS add-in (chirpy.codeplex.com). It comiles CoffeeScript on save in VS, producing one readable and one minified js version. It also handles .less, but I haven't used this yet.
sirclueless 15y ago
Holy crap, is it just me or is there is an absurd amount of code in that project for what it does?
- kevingadd 15y ago
  What do you expect? To implement syntax highlighting, you basically need a full parsing and lexing engine, and you need to communicate with the actual editor so that it knows how to color and lay out the source code.
benatkin 15y ago
I added it here: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/wiki/Text-editor-plugins https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/wiki/Text-editor-... Nice to see CoffeeScript support in so many different environments!
- chrisb 15y ago
  Thanks :)

39 points by chrisb 15y ago

How is Window's support for CoffeeScript? Does the compiler run on Windows? What I would really like is to be able to run the compiler from code, allowing me to keep .coffee files on the server and compile/cache them into javascript when browsers request them.

dualogy 15y ago
The CoffeeScript compiler is written in CoffeeScript so you can run it wherever you have a JavaScript runtime running. So easy to compile in the browser if eval()ing the compilation result is acceptable. (There's some fancy <script type="text/coffeescript"> or some such example on the CoffeeScript project homepage) Server-side on Windows... not sure, IronJS / JScript.NET I believe?
amirshim 15y ago
sure... you can run coffeescript on node on windows, see: http://blog.tatham.oddie.com.au/2011/03/16/node-js-on-windows/ http://blog.tatham.oddie.com.au/2011/03/16/node-js-on-window... And if you don't want to use vs2010, there is also gedit on windows which has support for coffeescript. As for online, what I do is I have an online coffeescript editor (http://ace.ajax.org/ http://ace.ajax.org/), and when I save a file (with extension .coffee), compile it to js in the browser and save both the original .coffee file and .js file back to the server.
chrisb 15y ago
Not quite what you are asking for, but I've recently started using the Chirpy VS add-in (chirpy.codeplex.com). It comiles CoffeeScript on save in VS, producing one readable and one minified js version. It also handles .less, but I haven't used this yet.

sirclueless 15y ago

Holy crap, is it just me or is there is an absurd amount of code in that project for what it does?

kevingadd 15y ago
What do you expect? To implement syntax highlighting, you basically need a full parsing and lexing engine, and you need to communicate with the actual editor so that it knows how to color and lay out the source code.

benatkin 15y ago

I added it here: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/wiki/Text-editor-plugins https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/wiki/Text-editor-... Nice to see CoffeeScript support in so many different environments!

chrisb 15y ago
Thanks :)