Factorio API autocomplete extension

Features

• Autocomplete of all Lua classes and globals

  

• Mouse hover tooltips, with links to the official documentation at http://lua-api.factorio.com

  

Dev Requirements

Using nvm you can get the correct node version to run the scraper: nvm use.

After this install the necessary modules with npm install.

Update data

Run the scrapper to pull the latest data from the Factorio API documentation: npx ts-node scraper/index.ts

Todo

Features

• Better support for functions that take tables as argument
• Function signature hints (registerSignatureHelpProvider)

Technical tasks

• Instead of storing inherited properties in the data file, they should maybe get looked up during runtime
• Unit tests

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