rokucommunity/vscode-brightscript-language

A Visual Studio Code extension for Roku's BrightScript language

Stars: 132
Forks: 60
Open beginner issues: 0
Indexed issues: 73
Avg merge: 13h 53m
Merged PRs (30d): 20

Dominant language: TypeScript
License: MIT
Last GitHub push: Sep 18, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
Contributing guide: Contributing guide
Code of conduct: No code of conduct
Beginner labels: good first issue help wanted

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73 open issues indexed

Support `bsconfigPath` in launch.json Open

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

rokucommunity/vscode-brightscript-language#859 · Opened Jul 16, 2026
DAP crash: unhandledRejection - Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'continue') Open

rokucommunity/vscode-brightscript-language#858 · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 13, 2026
DAP crash: unhandledRejection - Error with connection to: 192.168.1.17:8085 connect ETIMEDOUT 192.168.1.17:8085 Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

rokucommunity/vscode-brightscript-language#828 · Opened Jun 22, 2026
Watch brightscript.bsdk SDK for dependency changes, debounce restarts, and reload language server Open

enhancement

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

rokucommunity/vscode-brightscript-language#817 · Opened May 28, 2026
Multi-Root Workspaces, BSC Version Switching Open

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

rokucommunity/vscode-brightscript-language#781 · 3 comments · Opened May 6, 2026
Filter offline devices Open

rokucommunity/vscode-brightscript-language#775 · 1 assignee · Opened Apr 28, 2026
Add `extends` support to BrightScript launch configs Open

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

rokucommunity/vscode-brightscript-language#774 · Opened Apr 27, 2026
DAP crash: unhandledRejection - Control socket was closed - Command: StackTrace Open

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

rokucommunity/vscode-brightscript-language#773 · Opened Apr 27, 2026
Add telemetry tracing for configured devices Open

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

rokucommunity/vscode-brightscript-language#749 · Opened Apr 7, 2026
Document the new perfetto functionality Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 67/100

rokucommunity/vscode-brightscript-language#748 · Opened Apr 4, 2026
Inline parameters Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 45/100

rokucommunity/vscode-brightscript-language#745 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 2, 2026
Handle communicating to a Roku via the network interface it was discovered on Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

rokucommunity/vscode-brightscript-language#738 · Opened Apr 1, 2026
Handle host vs discovered IP Open

rokucommunity/vscode-brightscript-language#712 · 1 assignee · Opened Mar 17, 2026
Show popup for device any time it's alive, not just if it's "new" Open

rokucommunity/vscode-brightscript-language#708 · 1 assignee · Opened Mar 12, 2026
Ensure we're not doing device-info queries for 'alive' devices unless necessary Open

rokucommunity/vscode-brightscript-language#707 · 1 assignee · Opened Mar 12, 2026
Debounce multiple 'alive' ssdp messages from same device Open

rokucommunity/vscode-brightscript-language#706 · 1 assignee · Opened Mar 12, 2026
Support adding password to the brightscript.devices list Open

rokucommunity/vscode-brightscript-language#704 · 1 assignee · Opened Mar 12, 2026
Allow right-click “Save Device” in Devices panel with config scope selection and credential prompt Open

enhancement

rokucommunity/vscode-brightscript-language#697 · 1 assignee · Opened Mar 10, 2026
Button to save device to user settings Open

enhancement

rokucommunity/vscode-brightscript-language#696 · 1 assignee · Opened Mar 10, 2026
Support hand-curated device lists with merging and hierarchy across all VSCode config sources Open

enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

rokucommunity/vscode-brightscript-language#690 · Opened Mar 6, 2026
Clarify and Improve Host Picking Behaviors for Device Selection Open

enhancement

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

rokucommunity/vscode-brightscript-language#689 · Opened Mar 5, 2026
Device Discovery Improvements: Phase 2 Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

rokucommunity/vscode-brightscript-language#685 · Opened Feb 24, 2026
Extension timing out when device compile times are long Open

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

rokucommunity/vscode-brightscript-language#682 · 6 comments · Opened Jan 26, 2026
Clear compile errors on restart Open

good first issue

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

rokucommunity/vscode-brightscript-language#678 · Opened Dec 16, 2025
Add "getting started" walkthrough for new users and project scafolding Open

enhancement good first issue

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

rokucommunity/vscode-brightscript-language#667 · Opened Oct 7, 2025
Add a "project picker" in vscode for managing language server projects Open

enhancement

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

rokucommunity/vscode-brightscript-language#650 · Opened Jun 5, 2025
Don't colorize methods like `.count()` that aren't global Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

rokucommunity/vscode-brightscript-language#624 · Opened Feb 26, 2025
Show the app overlay panel contents all the time Open

enhancement

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

rokucommunity/vscode-brightscript-language#619 · Opened Feb 14, 2025
Now highlights errors that were previously OK Open

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

rokucommunity/vscode-brightscript-language#618 · 11 comments · Opened Feb 13, 2025
Shortcut overrides common VS Code shortcut Open

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

rokucommunity/vscode-brightscript-language#608 · Opened Jan 5, 2025
Advanced brighterscript version picker Open

enhancement

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

rokucommunity/vscode-brightscript-language#592 · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 23, 2024
Fix syntax highlighting for `optional` keyword in namespaced interface Open

bug SyntaxHighlighting

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 28/100

rokucommunity/vscode-brightscript-language#591 · Opened Sep 23, 2024
Can't change remoteHost once set Open

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

rokucommunity/vscode-brightscript-language#588 · 21 comments · Opened Sep 19, 2024
Better UX in Roku Commands Pane Open

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

rokucommunity/vscode-brightscript-language#581 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 17, 2024
Word "component" indents next line Open

bug

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

rokucommunity/vscode-brightscript-language#558 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 4, 2024
Device Discovery improvements Open

rokucommunity/vscode-brightscript-language#507 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Oct 12, 2023
Default/Active device handling Open

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

rokucommunity/vscode-brightscript-language#506 · 2 comments · Opened Oct 11, 2023
Disable device discovery scanning when on a large network Open

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

rokucommunity/vscode-brightscript-language#500 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 9, 2023
regex colorizing false positives Open

bug SyntaxHighlighting

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

rokucommunity/vscode-brightscript-language#470 · Opened Mar 20, 2023
linter reports problems on valid BrightScript code Open

bug languageserver

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

rokucommunity/vscode-brightscript-language#464 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 3, 2023
Add panel for launching roku streaming tester Open

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

rokucommunity/vscode-brightscript-language#457 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 11, 2023
support source map resolution in stack traces Open

enhancement roku-debug

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

rokucommunity/vscode-brightscript-language#448 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 9, 2022
Add button to copy device IP from Brighterscript Language > Devices Open

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

rokucommunity/vscode-brightscript-language#437 · 4 comments · Opened Sep 16, 2022
.env files not read when project resides in a single-folder workspace Open

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

rokucommunity/vscode-brightscript-language#434 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 1, 2022
Variables panel showing raw data when there is a variable with formatted `json` string Open

roku-debug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

rokucommunity/vscode-brightscript-language#432 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 29, 2022
BrighterScript Preview broken in ssh mode Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

rokucommunity/vscode-brightscript-language#404 · Opened Jun 7, 2022
Enum formating issue with names matching parameter types Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 40/100

rokucommunity/vscode-brightscript-language#396 · Opened May 18, 2022
Improve Device detection to display in the device list tab Open

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

rokucommunity/vscode-brightscript-language#393 · 1 comment · Opened May 17, 2022
Restart debug session not closing telnet connection Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

rokucommunity/vscode-brightscript-language#387 · Opened May 4, 2022
Syntax highlighting bug Open

SyntaxHighlighting

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

rokucommunity/vscode-brightscript-language#372 · 2 comments · Opened Mar 22, 2022

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