Eclipse NodeJS project code hint

Question

I am working on a new Node project using Eclipse 4.3.1, and I have installed Nodeclipse 0.10.0. In the nodeclipse.org website there is a picture that shows some code hints with description etc. I need help making that work because I'm having trouble coding without these hints since this is my first Node project. Thank you

Answer 1

Nodeclipse has code hint with description (for JSDT Editor since 0.10, for TextEditor based Editor since 0.9) only for base Node.js modules.

_{(source: nodeclipse.org)}

It is accessible with Ctrl+Space or Alt+/(for right hand)

Code completion without icons comes from completion.json that can be overwritten.

For other modules there is completion.json extended structure proposed:

{
    "completions": [
        {
            "trigger": "mymodule.doit();",
            "type": "method", // maybe also "event", "class" or "property"
            "name": "mymodule.doit",
            "desc": "the only method in some imaginary module"
        }
    ]
}

I am the author of advanced code hints in Nodeclispe (and lead the project currently). I will work on integrating such additional code hint metadata in Nodeclipse, but I will not work on creating such .json files. So it is matter whether there will be volunteers to work on specific modules support.

For any further questions and proposal create issue on GitHub.

Answer 2

I had a lot of problems making eclipse work for web projects - than i discovered

1. Sublime - http://www.sublimetext.com/ (free)
2. Webstorm from JetBrains http://www.jetbrains.com/webstorm/ ($$)