Has anyone in the community been looking into creating a Motoko plugin for webstorm? Am I the only one addicted to jetbrains’ products? I am currently coding with no syntax highlight on webstorm haha.
If anyone has had any experience with this please comment.
I just saw you found my question that was rejected by Jetbrains for no rational reason, what a shame.
Indeed a plugin would be really neat!
Meanwhile there is one plugin for VSCode. It’s what I use - i.e. I code Motoko in VSCode and do all the reast in Webstorm.
VScode is such a downgrade for front end code
I explained here at a high level how you should be able to at least get the language server talking to IntelliJ/JetBrains IDEs:
If I remember correctly, VS Code is the most popular editor so it makes sense to target that first.
I haven’t tried it myself recently but Motoko provides a language server that is compatible with editors that support the Language Server Protocol.
https://langserver.org isn’t the official site but I think it does a great job of explaining why LSP makes sense. It also lists language server implementations for different languages, and LSP clients for different editors.
It should be possible to …
I set it up this week with Emacs.
Quick search: no official LSP by IntelliJ/JetBrains IDEs but there is a plugin and client library