Language request: HOCON
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- Dominant language
- JavaScript
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Description
Language
HOCON ("Human-Optimized Config Object Notation") is a human-friendly JSON superset. It is a nice configuration format to use. So, it would be great to see support for it in Prism.
Additional resources
- Official website: https://lightbend.github.io/config/
- Documentation: https://github.com/lightbend/config#api-docs
- Informal spec: https://github.com/lightbend/config/blob/main/HOCON.md
- A HOCON playground: https://hocon-playground.herokuapp.com/
Do let me know if I could help with this in anyway.
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First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reviewing Prism's existing language support and the linked HOCON documentation and informal specification. Determine the syntax that needs highlighting and verify the result against representative HOCON examples; done means Prism supports HOCON syntax highlighting with appropriate tests.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript
- Domain
- tooling
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100