atom-ternjs

Javascript code intelligence for atom with Tern. Uses suggestion provider by autocomplete-plus.

Installation

Make sure Node.js is installed and the PATH variable is set.
Make sure GIT is installed and the PATH variable is set.

In your project root create a file named .tern-project

• With default config via menu (Packages -> Atom Ternjs -> Create default .tern-project) or by adding it manually. See docs at http://ternjs.net/doc/manual.html#configuration.
• Check path in loadEagerly
• Restart the server via Packages -> Atom Ternjs -> Restart server

If a root file named .tern-project is not found ~/.tern-config serves as a default.

Example .tern-project file (customize to your own needs):

{
  "libs": [
    "browser",
    "ecma5",
    "ecma6",
    "jquery"
  ],
  "loadEagerly": [
    "absolute/or/relative/path/to/your/js/**/*.js"
  ],
  "dontLoad": [
    "absolute/or/relative/path/to/your/js/**/*.js"
  ],
  "plugins": {
    "complete_strings": {},
    "node": {},
    "lint": {},
    "angular": {},
    "requirejs": {},
    "doc_comment": {
      "fullDocs": true
    }
  }
}

Libs

• browser: completion for vanilla js (optional)
• ecma5: es5 (optional)
• ecma6: es6 (optional)
• jquery: completion for jQuery (optional)

Options

• loadEagerly: provide the path to your projects js. Absolute path is recommended, but not necessary. (For relative path do not use ./ as a prefix. This sometimes leads to an unexpected behaviour)
• dontLoad: can be used to prevent Tern from loading certain files. It also takes an array of file names or glob patterns.

Plugins

• complete_strings: When enabled, this plugin will gather (short) strings in your code, and completing when inside a string will try to complete to previously seen strings. Takes a single option, maxLength, which controls the maximum length of string values to gather, and defaults to 15. (optional)
• doc_comment: tern will look for JSDoc-style type declarations. Returns the full comment text instead of the first sentence. (optional)
• node: NodeJS (optional)
• lint: angelozerr/tern-lint is a tern plugin which is able to validate JavaScript files to collect semantic errors. Linter is used to display these errors and warnings (optional)
• angular: AngularJS (optional)
• requirejs: RequireJS (optional, understand RequireJS-style dependency management)
• For a list of possible plugins goto http://ternjs.net/doc/manual.html#plugins

.tern-project created/modified

• After the file was created or has been modified, restart the server via Packages -> Atom Ternjs -> Restart server

Features

• Completion (autocompletion triggers automatically, via strg+space or can be forced in any context with ctrl+alt+space)

• Find references (set your cursor position to one of variable, function or instance -> open context-menu and trigger "Find references" or use the shortcut ctrl+shift+r) Click any item in the generated reference-list and navigate directly to file and position

• Documentation (displayed if a suggestion with a valid documentation is selected in the select-list)
• Find definition (set your cursor position to one of variable, function or instance -> open context-menu and trigger "Find definition" or use the shortcut ctrl+alt+d)
• Back from definition ctrl+alt+z
• Rename variable (set your cursor position to a variable -> open context-menu and trigger "Rename" or use the shortcut ctrl+alt+c)