CoffeeScript Support

Coding assistance

CoffeeScript support includes:

• Code completion for keywords, labels, variables, parameters and functions.
• Error and syntax highlighting.
• Code formatting and folding.
• Refactoring:
  • Common refactoring procedures, such as extract method , inline, rename/move, etc.
  • CoffeeScript-specific refactoring procedures, such as change signature, extract parameter, extract variable. These types of refactoring are identical with JavaScript, for more details, see the section JavaScript-Specific Refactorings
• Code generation
  • Generating code stubs based on file templates during file creation.
  • Possibility to create line and block comments (Ctrl+Slash; Ctrl+DivideCtrl+Slash; Ctrl+Divide/Ctrl+Shift+Slash; Ctrl+Shift+DivideCtrl+Shift+Slash; Ctrl+Shift+Divide).
• • Navigating with Structure View.
  • Navigate | Declaration (Ctrl+BCtrl+B).
  • Navigate | Implementation (Ctrl+Alt+BCtrl+Alt+B) from overridden method / subclassed class.
• Compiling to JavaScript for further running, testing, and debugging.
• Executing CoffeeScript files involves:
  • Possibility to preview results of CoffeeScript files compilation to JavaScript.
  • Possibility to launch CoffeeScript files from the context menu.
  • Run/debug configuration for NodeJS includes the possibility to use CoffeeScript plugin.