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Jade: Characters used by Angular 2 are not recognized as valid attribute names
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Description
It seems that Jade syntax hightlighting is buggy: It does not support characters like * or [] in an attribute name.
Unfortunately, Angular 2 relies heavily on them :(
I guess that JadeTokenizer.GetAttribute() method is to blame
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- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start in Nodejs/Product/Nodejs/Jade/Tokenizer/JadeTokenizer.cs, focusing on the GetAttribute() method identified in the issue. Reproduce the syntax-highlighting problem with Angular 2 attribute names containing * or [], then verify that those characters are recognized as valid attribute-name syntax.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- angular, csharp
- Domain
- tooling
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 2/5
- Estimated time
- 1-3 hours
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Clearly specified
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100