1.0 Plan

[johnsoncodehk]

Hi user, hope you are satisfied with Volar. :)

I just released vscode-vue-languageservice, and the current phased work has been completed. Let me briefly introduce Volar here, and then talk about future plans.

What is Volar?

Volar is a great song by my favorite singer!

What is Volar's goal?

1. Realize the *.ts same level of coding experience in <script>.
2. Maximize the use of SFC design to provide language features. (Not only combine HTML, Css, Js and provide language features separately)

What are the features of Volar?

Volar provides Vue 3 language support, as well as some features that I think are helpful. E.g:

• Template type-checking
• Pug <-> HTML conversion
• Split <template>, <script>, <style> into independent editors
• TS Plugin
• Css class name renaming, find references, goto definition
• ...

IDE support other than VSCode

I do not plan to maintain IDEs other than VSCode, which is too much work for me. Secondly, if I maintain an IDE that I don't use, it will be difficult for me to find the problem and fix it early.

If you are an extension developer of other IDEs, you can use vscode-vue-languageservice for your IDE to create extensions with Volar language features. vscode-vue-languageservice is a general-purpose module for Language Server. It has the same API as vscode-css-languageservice and vscode-html-languageservice. It can be used in any IDE in theory.

Future plan

The biggest challenge for Volar in the future is to implement the Plugin API, which can change the type checking behavior of vue-tsc and Volar, and provide additional language support to support third-party plug-ins such as i18n.

The current architecture of vscode-vue-languageservice does not support the implementation of Plugin API, so I plan to completely rewrite vscode-vue-languageservice to support Plugin API in the future. This is a very large workload. I can only develop Volar in my spare time, so This work cannot be carried out for the time being.

I do hope to develop Volar full-time to implement the Plugin API. If you want to see this happen, please consider becoming a sponsor. Thank you!

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Thanks a lot to early users who reported a lot of bugs!

@pgy108103, @cereschen, @kadiryazici

[cereschen]

We are witnessing volar getting better and better 🎉