Welcome to the Nova Extension Library.
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Extensions - Topics related to overall extension development
- Commands - How to define commands that can be invoked from the menu bar and command palette.
- Debug Adapters - How to contribute debug adapters to the IDE to provide interactive debugging.
- Images - How to use image assets for interface elements in your extension
- Issue Matchers - A set of rules defining how issues are automatically detected in output
- Localization - How to localize extensions for multiple languages
- Manifest Reference - Key-Value reference for the extension JSON manifest
- Preferences - How to use private and user-visible preferences to save state on a workspace or global basis.
- Sidebars - How an extension can contribute sidebars with one or more sections
- Snippets - Description of the Snippets placeholder format for Clips and Completions
- Tasks - How to contribute tasks to the IDE within a user's project.
- Themes - How to define a custom theme for the IDE and editor.
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JavaScript API Reference - Object classes and interfaces exposed by the application to provide access to various features and functionality.
- AssistantsRegistry - Interfaces to registering and invoking assistants
- Charset - A representation of a set of Unicode characters used in search operations
- Clipboard - Reading and writing to the clipboard
- Color - A displayable color object
- ColorCandidate - A possible value within a document's text that may be parsed into color information
- ColorInformation - An instance of an annotatable color within a document
- ColorInformationContext - Contextual information about a request for color information
- ColorPresentation - A single textual form in which a color can be represented when inserted into a document
- ColorPresentationContext - Contextual information about a request for color presentations
- CommandsRegistry - Interfaces to registering and invoking extension commands
- CompletionColorPop - A color pop option displayed in the editor completions list
- CompletionContext - Information about the request for completion items within an editor
- CompletionItem - An item displayed in the editor completions list
- CompositeDisposable - A collection for multiple disposable objects
- Configuration - Interfaces to storing and retrieving settings and persistent state
- Console - Interfaces to the standard logging console
- Credentials - Storage of secure credentials
- DebugSession - Represents a debug session running in the workspace
- DebugSessionCustomEvent - A custom event sent from a debug adapter
- Disposable - An interface for objects that can be torn down
- Emitter - Dispatches event notifications to listeners
- Environment - Interfaces to the application environment
- Extension - Contains properties and method related to the current extension
- File - Allows reading and writing of files
- FileStats - Information about files on disk
- FileSystem - Query and modify attributes of file system objects
- FileSystemWatcher - Observe changes to files in the workspace
- Issue - A single diagnostic from a linter, checker, or other tool
- IssueCollection - Used to provide organized issues to a workspace by file
- IssueParser - An object that can parse issues from the string output of a task using predefined rules
- LanguageClient - Interfaces to Language Server Protocol support
- NotificationCenter - Interfaces to managing notification requests
- NotificationRequest - Presents a notification to the user
- NotificationResponse - The result of presenting a notification to the user
- Path - Manipulation of file system paths
- Process - Interface to launch Unix subprocesses
- ProcessMessage - A message sent between an extension and subprocess over JSON-RPC
- Range - Represents contiguous, linear regions of an element
- Scanner - A string parser that scans for substrings or characters in a character set
- ScopeSelector - A descriptor for a set of text highlighting classes used in syntax grammars
- Symbol - A symbolic construct within an editor's text
- Task - A dynamically-defined task
- TaskActionResolveContext - Contextual information about a task action being resolved
- TaskCommandAction - Defines a task action that invokes an extension command
- TaskDebugAdapterAction - Defines a task action that invokes a Debug Adapter
- TaskProcessAction - Defines a task action that invokes a Unix subprocess
- TaskResolvableAction - Defines a task action that can be resolved to another type when invoked
- TextDocument - An open document in the workspace
- TextEdit - A single edit that may be applied to an editor
- TextEditor - An open editor in the workspace
- TextEditorEdit - An atomic edit operation that may combine multiple changes
- TreeDataProvider - An interface for objects that provided data to a TreeView
- TreeItem - An item shown within a TreeView
- TreeView - Provides an interface to working with and providing data to a custom tree sidebar
- Web APIs - Interfaces supported from open Web API standards
- Workspace - Interface to an open workspace window
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Syntax Grammar Reference - The XML format used for language grammars and completion definitions.
- Completions - Definitions of completions
- Scopes - Rules for parsing languages
- Symbols - Rules for symbolicating the components of languages
- Syntaxes - Definitions of a language grammar
- Developer Forum - Join other developers to ask questions or suggest ideas regarding extensions.