CfxLua (FiveM/RedM) IntelliSense

This extension is not authored, published, sponsored, nor endorsed by Cfx.re.

Features

• Diagnostics, IntelliSense, annotations, and auto-completion provided by sumneko's Lua Language Server.
• Support for Cfx's implementation of the Lua language (LuaGLM).
  • Support for vector, quat, and matrix types.
  • Support for safe navigation t?.x?.y == nil.
  • Support for in unpacking local a,b,c in t.
• Support for runtime/environment globals (e.g. CreateThread, promises, json, statebags).
• Support for FiveM, RedM, and CFX natives.

Manually building native declarations

Natives are included with the extension - this section can be ignored for standard use.

• Install NodeJS
• Download JetbrainIDE-CFX.RE
• Open a terminal in the folder containing JetbrainIDE-CFX.RE
• Execute the following commands, in order
  • npm i
  • npm install -g ts-node
  • npm install -g typescript
• Once all dependencies have been installed, execute npm run start and follow the prompts
• You will want to build CFX as well as game natives
• Change path-to-natives to the newly build directory (i.e. C:/GitHub/JetbrainIDE-CFX.RE/build/cfx)

Thanks to CitizenFX, gottfriedleibniz, alloc8or, iTexZoz, and TasoOneAsia