IntelliSense Support about powerquery-parser

[mattmasson]

@bgribaudo - there are two projects you might be interested in;

• PQ/M VS Code extension: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-powerquery/
• Language Services library: https://github.com/microsoft/powerquery-language-services/

vscode-powerquery has a .json file that contains a hardcoded list of M library symbols. However, I expect I'll be changing the existing file format in the near future. Ultimately I'd like this to be dynamically retrieved from an M backend service, but until then we'll be keeping this up to date.

powerquery-language-services provides the Language Server Protocol capabilities, and relies heavily on the powerquery-parser code. This is where you'd find most of the "intellisense" functionality.

Contributions are welcome! If you're looking for ideas of where to help out, feel free to reach out!

[JordanBoltonMN]

You are correct. We are currently working on a new Power Query extension for VSCode which will use this parser as it's base. I can @you when it's released.

[bgribaudo]

Thank you, @JordanBoltonMN. Much appreciated.

(Just an idea: It would be really neat if the new extension packaged the list of IntelliSense member definitions it uses in a way that could be easily extracted and used by other tools....)

[bgribaudo]

Thank you, @mattmasson (and @JordanBoltonMN)!