JSDT known as Javascript Development Tools is a part of the Web Tools Platform in the Eclipse IDE.
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How to ignore node shebang error in Eclipse?
I am writing some node command line utilities. They all start with the line:
#!/usr/bin/env node
With Eclipse Juno and the Nodeclipse Node.js plugin, this line of code produces an error as shown:
OK, so # is not a valid comment character in…
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How to install the latest version of JavaScript Development Tools in Eclipse?
On http://www.eclipse.org/webtools/jsdt/ it says that the most recent version is 3.4. My Eclipse version is 4.2 Juno.
In Help → Install new software... when I search for it I only get the 1.4 JSDT. I've got the following software sites enabled:
Juno…
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Eclipse is hanged on copy/paste in JavaScript files
I've been running Eclipse Helios 3.6 using the Java/CFEclipse IDEs, and finding some very strange and aggravating errors when trying to edit Javascript files. After the .js file reaches a certain size (~250 lines of code), Eclipse will randomly hang…
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How to make JavaScript function visible in Eclipse "Outline View"?
I have such code but can not turn on outline of function if it defined in anonymous function - there is not problem with class.
How can I outline something2 - please share some hints?
I can mark all function as constructors but it is invalid…
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How to setup Eclipse to be warned about trailing comma in JavaScript
As many of us know, IE7 is not quite friendly with JavaScript code containing trailing commas, which can be a large problem for projects using modern JS framerworks and containing a lot of JS code.
In a pretty good article on the subject, the author…
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Autocomplete not working with Eclipse Oxygen Javascript project
I'm using Eclipse Oxygen (4.7) with the Eclipse Web Tools Platform installed on Ubuntu 16.04.3. Auto-completion of variables and functions only works provided that the variable or function is local to the file that I'm currently working on.…
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Can Eclipse format comma-separated statements (var a = 1, b=2;) on different lines?
I am using Eclipse JSDT and the default formatting settings change something like
var a = 1,
b = 2;
to be on one ugly line.
The style before formatting is recommended by JSLint, so I am wondering can Eclipse be set to format it this way? The…
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How use Eclipse as a Javascript IDE?
I downloaded the eclipse Javascript IDE from the official download page however, when i start the application it says "A Java Runtime Environment or Java development Kit must be available in order to run eclipse." I already have a java IDE copy of…
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What happened to Eclipse's JSDT?
JSDT (Javascript Development Tools) is an Eclipse project aimed at implementing the JDT APIs for Javascript. Its early demos were really impressive, but it seems to not have had any releases since 2007, without any mention of what happened to…
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Where is ES6 support in Eclipse Neon?
I downloaded the 'Java EE' and 'web developer' editions of Eclipse Neon to try out the new ES6 support that allegedly exists in this new version of the software.
However both editions appear to contain only the old ES3 validator - with no ES6 in…
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Getting jQuery and AngularJS content assist / auto-complete in eclipse for standalone HTML "file"
I have followed the steps described here for adding the autocomplete functionality to the eclipse.
In this after installing JSDT plugin, I have to create a project, then add the plugin as a JS resource. I have found two weird things:
I can get…
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Specifying to Eclipse/JSDT the type of a Javascript variable
I'm trying to use Eclipse for some server-side Javascript development.
The API I use has a function doStuff(string, object) (names changed to protect the guilty) that returns a value of differing types (subclasses of one type) depending on the…
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Enabling the JSDT Outline view in Eclipse Neon
The question of the Outline view showing the contents of a JavaScript source file is not new and it had even found an answer.
However, that answer no longer works in Neon (4.6.0): I have opened the exact same file of one project imported in two…
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Changing javascript to jQuery first time Struts 1.3 application
I am changing the javascript in my project to jquery. This is the first time im using Jquery and expect me to be making silly mistakes please.
I placed a simple JQ alert function in a .js file which looks like below.
$(document).ready(function(){
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Eclipse>WST>JSDT Javascript Refactoring Renaming variables working half of the time
In Eclipse (I am running 3.8.0 @ Linux (Mint 14 (Ubuntu (Debian))) at the moment), renaming variables using Refactor is an option that seems randomly available. For some code it's there, and for other code it's not.
I tried to see a pattern why some…
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