Microsoft/monaco-editor

API to talk with the language server of a language

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#1,885 opened on Mar 25, 2020

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Description

It would be great if you add to the monaco.d.ts file the API to talk directly with the server language of a language. For example, the typescript language provides a method to get the typescript worker, but not all languages have something like that, for example, the HTML language.

In my case, I embedded the Monaco editor in a custom IDE and I need to build custom UI to show the outline of the file and the documentation of the selected element in a file, for any language provided by default in the editor.

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Research direction
Investigate how language workers are created in Monaco Editor and how to expose a generic API to communicate with them, similar to the TypeScript worker API.
Tech stack
typescriptjavascripthtml
Domain
frontendapideveloper experience
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Feature
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4
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3-5 days
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Active
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Clear
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GitTypeScript
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50