rokucommunity/brighterscript

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A superset of Roku's BrightScript language

Stars: 208
Forks: 68
Open beginner issues: 0
Indexed issues: 269
Avg merge: 8h 39m
Merged PRs (30d): 39

Dominant language: TypeScript
License: MIT
Last GitHub push: Sep 15, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
Contributing guide: No contributing guide
Code of conduct: No code of conduct
Beginner labels: help wanted good first issue

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269 open issues indexed

AST Factory API for plugin compatibility Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

rokucommunity/brighterscript#1809 · Opened Sep 10, 2026
Build crashes on files a plugin adds to event.files after the prepare phase Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

rokucommunity/brighterscript#1806 · Opened Sep 10, 2026
Require plugins to declare their diagnostic codes Open

Breaking Change

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

rokucommunity/brighterscript#1797 · Opened Sep 9, 2026
Add more xml completions Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 70/100

rokucommunity/brighterscript#1779 · Opened Sep 2, 2026
Subclass field re-declared with only a type annotation (no initializer) clobbers the value the base constructor already set Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 70/100

rokucommunity/brighterscript#1771 · Opened Jul 31, 2026
Fully support language server for `brsconfig.json` Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 38/100

rokucommunity/brighterscript#1751 · Opened Jul 16, 2026
[CLI] --dry command to print out matched files and dest paths Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 50/100

rokucommunity/brighterscript#1713 · Opened May 18, 2026
Multi-line function calls in .brs files Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 64/100

rokucommunity/brighterscript#1692 · Opened Apr 30, 2026
Lazy LSP project activation: activate projects on first file interaction, not all at startup Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 42/100

rokucommunity/brighterscript#1691 · Opened Apr 30, 2026
require failures in bsconfig should produce a diagnostic and not crash the LSP process Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

rokucommunity/brighterscript#1690 · Opened Apr 30, 2026
Integrate api-extractor and leverage @internal to protect certain functions Open

Breaking Change

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

rokucommunity/brighterscript#1686 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 29, 2026
Provide plugin mechanism to cancel compilation Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

rokucommunity/brighterscript#1675 · 2 comments · Opened Apr 14, 2026
Transpilation issue with complicated typecast Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

rokucommunity/brighterscript#1651 · Opened Mar 20, 2026
Workspace excludes will exclude other workspaces Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

rokucommunity/brighterscript#1638 · Opened Feb 25, 2026
Add support for tuples Open

enhancement New Language Feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

rokucommunity/brighterscript#1634 · Opened Feb 23, 2026
Add support for typed associative array values Open

enhancement New Language Feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

rokucommunity/brighterscript#1633 · Opened Feb 23, 2026
Improve language server performance for large multi-project workspaces Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

rokucommunity/brighterscript#1625 · 1 reaction · Opened Feb 15, 2026
LSP uncaught exception on receiving MethodNotFound error response from client Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

rokucommunity/brighterscript#1619 · 3 comments · Opened Feb 8, 2026
Watch mode errors on scope changes after transpilation Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

rokucommunity/brighterscript#1613 · Opened Jan 27, 2026
Language Server: Do not walk past workspaceFolders when searching for bsconfig.json Open

BrighterScript bug LanguageServer

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

rokucommunity/brighterscript#1605 · Opened Jan 7, 2026
Expose all AST creators to plugins to prevent stale/invalid AST generation Open

enhancement plugin api

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

rokucommunity/brighterscript#1594 · Opened Nov 21, 2025
Add support for augmenting classes with existing types using `includes type` syntax Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

rokucommunity/brighterscript#1589 · 1 reaction · Opened Nov 6, 2025
Better code completion for extends Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

rokucommunity/brighterscript#1584 · Opened Oct 31, 2025
Add transpiler option that toggles whether or not class properties WITHOUT default values are set to Invalid Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

rokucommunity/brighterscript#1567 · Opened Sep 9, 2025
Standardize and Document BscPlugin Event Timing (Potential Breaking Change) Open

Breaking Change Docs question

rokucommunity/brighterscript#1554 · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 14, 2025
Migrate all plugin-related functionality into BscPlugin Open

Breaking Change

rokucommunity/brighterscript#1553 · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 14, 2025
Null coalescing operator used with namespace constant results in warning Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

rokucommunity/brighterscript#1545 · Opened Aug 1, 2025
Null Coalescing expressions should handle `<uninitialized>` Open

enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

rokucommunity/brighterscript#1543 · 2 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Jul 18, 2025
Support declaring a list of global function names Open

enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

rokucommunity/brighterscript#1542 · 3 comments · Opened Jul 18, 2025
Inline bslib functions to eliminate need for bslib.brs Open

enhancement transpiler

rokucommunity/brighterscript#1524 · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened Jun 30, 2025
param completion for call inside anon func body is incorrect Open

bug LanguageServer

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

rokucommunity/brighterscript#1523 · Opened Jun 25, 2025
Validate auto-discovered manifests Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

rokucommunity/brighterscript#1519 · 5 comments · Opened Jun 18, 2025
Function after literal shows as syntax error, but it's supported on device Open

bug parser

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 20/100

rokucommunity/brighterscript#1516 · Opened Jun 13, 2025
source literals shouldn't have their own AST type Open

Breaking Change

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

rokucommunity/brighterscript#1515 · 3 comments · Opened Jun 13, 2025
Enum transpilation bug Open

bug transpiler

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

rokucommunity/brighterscript#1507 · Opened Jun 5, 2025
Typing a const statement causes lsp crashes Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

rokucommunity/brighterscript#1505 · Opened Jun 5, 2025
Show what project a "this file isn't found" error came from Open

enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

rokucommunity/brighterscript#1504 · Opened Jun 5, 2025
go to definition should not wait for first validate Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

rokucommunity/brighterscript#1503 · Opened Jun 5, 2025
Stack overflow for circular component reference Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 28/100

rokucommunity/brighterscript#1502 · 6 comments · Opened Jun 5, 2025
Const Transpilation Error in Namespaces Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 15/100

rokucommunity/brighterscript#1495 · 2 comments · Opened May 14, 2025
Support `import type` Open

enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

rokucommunity/brighterscript#1479 · Opened Apr 24, 2025
Force scope.name to be lower case Open

Breaking Change

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 32/100

rokucommunity/brighterscript#1478 · Opened Apr 24, 2025
instr method signature is incorrect Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

rokucommunity/brighterscript#1455 · Opened Apr 9, 2025
ternary op behaves incorrectly with arrays in the operands Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

rokucommunity/brighterscript#1452 · Opened Apr 4, 2025
Developer Documentation for upgrade from v0 to v1 Open

Docs

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

rokucommunity/brighterscript#1444 · Opened Apr 3, 2025
`FUNCTION_NAME` source literal doesn't work in class methods Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

rokucommunity/brighterscript#1436 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 26, 2025
Update `bsconfig.schema.json` for v1 updates (including `diagnosticFilters`) Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

rokucommunity/brighterscript#1431 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 17, 2025
Add diagnostic for "Internal limit size exceeded" Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

rokucommunity/brighterscript#1427 · Opened Mar 12, 2025
Support for declaring all roku types in typedefs Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

rokucommunity/brighterscript#1412 · Opened Feb 13, 2025
Simplified syntax for null-coalescing operator Open

rokucommunity/brighterscript#1406 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened Jan 29, 2025

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