Visual Studio Javascript extensions feature comparison

Question

I know I\'m not the first one that would like to have #region and brace matching support for Javascript. That\'s why I don\'t want to install one by one and see

Answer 1

Since nobody answered my question let me give you some information about JSEnhancements that I installed in the end and am very very pleased with:

• it supports #region in javascripts (// #region Name) as well as in CSS files (/* #region Name */) which is really great and they don't interfere with anything since they're part of comments
• it highlights matching braces even though this is not always working, you have to position yourself correctly. Maybe it interferes with Power Tools that I also use...

Sometimes you have to close+reopen the file for regions to start working. Sometimes writing them down doesn't recognise them. ^{Newer versions work as expected} It obviously works fine when you open the file and it parses it.

Anyway. It's stable, works and I'm very pleased with this extension. You won't miss with its installation.

Answer 2

JScript Editor Extensions is much better than JSEnhancements. It will highlight matching braces, cold-folding the blocks, current word highlighting.

Although it does not support #region name,

but you can use javascript curly brackets to enclose your code and place a comment above to know what you are making collapsible.

//My region
{
  //lines of code
  //lines of code
  //lines of code
}

these will collapse and don't appear to affect anything else. javascript just treats them as simple compound statement.

Further, I would also recommend Web Standards Update as it also helped me with intellisense and validation.

Answer 3

Well there is one more tool for javascript "Javascript parser" which will parse your files and make a map on it. It is good but for me working with jquery it didn't help much.

Among the rest of the tools you mentioned, I was working too with JSenhancements for some time but I have switched to JScript Editor Extensions which I can tell seems more promising (highlight of current word, para comments etc).

It hasn't crashed since.

Answer 4

Try JScript Editor Extensions by Microsoft for VS2010

Answer 5

Javascript Explorer - Though this will not region'ize your code, it sounds to be handy!