BrightScript Language extension for VSCode

The popular BrightScript Language extension for VSCode is used by thousands of Roku developers around the world. Revolutionize your Roku development workflow by using this powerful tool.

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Notable features

The extension is packed with features, but here are some highlights:

• Side-load directly to a roku device from VSCode
• In editor debugging support including breakpoints, variable inspection, and more...
• Integrated device logs and interactive console (see image below)
• Catch errors in VSCode with the built in syntax checking. (Powered by the BrighterScript language server)
• Automatic rendezvous tracking when logrendezvous is enabled on the Roku device.
• Powerful task system with interactive folder selection and advanced configuration options
• Syntax highlighting, code formatting, symbol navigation, and much more

Documentation

For a full list of features and settings, please see our documentation website, or click one of the links below.

Extension

• Features - The full list of features provided by BrightScript Language
• KeyBindings - A full list of pre included keybindings
• Extension Settings - The full list of possible VS Code settings

Code Editing

• Language Server Errors and Warnings - Ways to handle different errors show by the language server
• Code formatting - How to set up code formatting and the different formatting options.
• Code Snippets - A collection of useful code snippets

Tasks

• BrightScript Tasks - Automate your development workflow with BrightScript tasks

Debugging

• Basic project setup - Launching and debugging your local project on a Roku device.
• Component Libraries - How to define custom component libraries in your launch.json
• Deeplinking - Sending deeplinks from the launch.json
• Remote control emulation - How to emulate the Roku remote control
• Rale - Inject Rale into your application without committing the TrackerTask to your repository
• BS_Consts - Changing bs_const values from the launch.json
• Advanced Project Setup - Setting up your project with complex use cases such as custom build scripts or source files located in multiple different directories.

Contributing

The majority of this extension's language feature support depends on the BrighterScript project, which contributes the language server. The debugging functionality comes from the roku-debug project. If you would like to contribute please see our contributing guide

Accepted security advisories

Dependencies flagged by npm audit that we have reviewed and chosen not to upgrade are tracked in audit-ci.jsonc. Each entry includes the advisory ID, the date it was added, and the reason it does not apply to this project.

Changelog

Click here to see the changelog.