Eclipse JavaScript Development Tools 3.8.0

The following are plan items including those not yet categorized into a theme.

• Continue the working on Integration of dependency management tools like node.js/bower/npm into JSDT, thus in order to make it possible for developers to use such tools right from the IDE. A number of CQs is created and approved, due to make it possible to invoke native node.js/bower/npm utilities installed in user environment

• An extension point for configuring and invoking node.js and npm. The default implementation should allow users to select their node/npm installation as preference but tools like JBT should be able to extend and provide embedded/preconfigured node.js implementations.

• JSON Editor integration contribution is going in order to let developers to create/edit/modify JSON files. From JSDT point of view the goal is to provide a support for bower.json/.bowerrc/packages.json files editing which is a part of dependency management tools integration work.

• Parser/scanner/validator changes in order to make it compatible to ECMA5 at least (but better to ECMAScript 2015)

• The maintenance for bug fixing and solving the performance issues like the following:

  • Limit the scope of files to be parsed by JSDT as many of cases don't require all the existing project files to be parsed in all the cases.
  • Work on Performance issues: We've added a way to skip/disable the internal JSDT parsing/validation. Now we need to add an extension mechanism in order to allow external validation.
  • Other performance and stability issues (BugZilla, Automated Error Reporting System, and so on)

• Provide a solution for an automatic disabling of JSDT internal parsing/validation in case when Tern.java is installed in user's environment, to make JSDT not to consume the resources on parsing/validation/content assisting while this work is doubled and is done better by Tern.java. This could be done by either the configuration of JSDT by a JBT's jst.jsdt plug-in or by Tern.java itself (by its JSDT integration plug-in).