Now Eclipse can be awesome for JavaScript Featuring JSjet
Remember those times when Eclipse was a great IDE for Java, but not exactly accommodating for JavaScript? Well we remember that too. In fact, according to surveys, around 93% of all websites use JavaScript. Due to this fact, it made sense to create a product that mixes the awesomeness of Eclipse with the popularity of JavaScript. This mix, or as we like to call it “JSjet,” is now live and ready for use. Check out what JSjet includes and make sure to read until the end ‘cause I close with my favorite feature. (Don’t skim!) TLDR; Get JSjet because it is free, and you use JavaScript 😉
With JSjet you can now trust your code. JSjet includes an Intelligent Content Assist, if you are a modern ES6 JavaScript developer this is definitely a must have tool. Content assist will help you get proposals appropriately sorted, your icons readable and an awesome HTML content assist includes a maintained order of proposals and proposals in event attributes.
It can be hard to code not knowing if what you just spent hours coding is right or wrong. It can be similar to walking in the dark. Now you don’t have to wait until you test. Fast and accurate Validation will alert you when there is a problem with your code. Something along the lines of “Hold on, did you really just write that line of code? Are you kidding me? So wrong! Change professions!!” Well maybe not as fun as those lines, but I will make sure to let our development team know that’s how I personally like my alerts.
Moving on to debugging. Ahhh… A developer’s worst nightmare. Good news is, Eclipse includes an interface for Java debugging. Bad news is this can’t be used for JavaScript. JSjet includes an Integrated Debugger that allows you to debug Javascript code using the same interface as the Java debugger. Nice, huh? How do you like them bugs?
I believe everything mentioned above can be amazingly useful, but it’s time to talk about what to me is one of the best features. Source Formatting. This feature goes ahead and improves the readability of your code with the proper indentations and allows you to quickly spot elements. Code editing and visualization, includes unique colors for items like function calls, returns, operators, strings, comments and ES6 keywords and structures.
There is still more…check our delivery log for other features like Call and Type Hierarchies to help you easily visualize the flow of your code, or Source Refactoring helping you rename an item in your code the easy way…