Hi, I would ask if is possible to use Auto Formatting in Lightning Component.
Thanks!
Posted 12 Sep 2017 and edited 20 Jan 2020
Hi, I would ask if is possible to use Auto Formatting in Lightning Component.
Thanks!
Posted 12 Sep 2017
Greetings,
Thank you for your question.
We are going to implement this option in future versions of The Welkin Suite IDE.
Right now, our developers are working on improving the markup completion for Lightning files that we released in The Welkin Suite Bloom R4, and after this we will continue to extend abilities of the IDE to make your working process with Lightning Components and Applications easier.
I will keep you updated on availability auto formatting for Aura.
Regards,
Kate
Kate Dulko
Customer Relations
The Welkin Suite
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Posted 12 Sep 2017
Thanks! :)
Posted 21 Dec 2017
Hello. Is there any update regarding auto formating Aura?
Thank you
Derrick
Posted 26 Dec 2017
Hi Derrick,
We keep Lightning formatting functionality in our roadmap, so it for sure will be implemented.
Meantime, currently we have been back to improving and extending the code assistance functionality for Apex.
We are going to work on non-Apex code assistance improvements in several months, so we will get back to this topic with updates once we will know the estimates on when we will implement this functionality.
Hope this answers.
Best Regards,
Vladimir
Vladimir Gubanovich
Head of Product
The Welkin Suite
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e-mail: vladimir.gubanovich@welkinsuite.com
Posted 20 Feb 2018
Please, please push the features concerning development of lightning components in from of the road map queue. The features like auto closing braces, code formatting of javascript, formatting of XML/Aura is really needed. As of today this is a big weakness making me nearly want to give up on The Welkin Suite. It get me more angry and distracted then feeling the joy of doing the lightning components development in this IDE.
And will also use this opportunity to thank you for all the work you all have done on the IDE so far. As a user of VS and IntelliJ IDE’s for non SF work, it was a very big disappointment starting doing SF work with the lack of good development tools. And therefore I was so happy when I found your IDE, and saw the potential it has and you all strive to reach. Keep up with the good work.
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-Albert Einst
Cheers,
Kenneth Soerensen
Posted 22 Feb 2018
Hi Albert,
Thank you for your post and for such a great feedback about The Welkin Suite IDE!
Such feedback really inspires our team to make The Welkin Suite the best IDE for Salesforce development, and it is great to see the way we make somebody's life easier.
As for the auto formatting in Lightning components, this is already present in our plans for the nearest months.
I will keep you updated when we will start working on this functionality. We will do everything possible to implement it as soon as possible.
Best Regards,
Kate
Kate Dulko
Customer Relations
The Welkin Suite
twitter: @KateDulko
skype id: d_katerina
e-mail: kate.dulko@welkinsuite.com
Posted 05 Apr 2018
I could not agree more with Albert. The experience of developing Lighting Components on The Welkin Suite is really poor and since the introduction of lightning, I am doing more lightning development than apex, a trend which I expect to increase in magnitude, not decrease.
Here are some of the changes I would like to see:
When I enter a new line in component markup, I expect the spacing to remain the same on this new line (currently I have to hit tab many times for every new line)
Formatting support for javascript
The same searching features experienced while doing apex development (ctrl+f searches locally, ctrl+shift+f opens the global search box)
Auto complete of markup nodes includes the entire ending tag (not missing the > sign)
More things that are not coming to mind.
Otherwise, I really like how the bundles are grouped together nicely in the UI and the quick view of the component you are working on is nice (although I don't think I've ever seen it work).
I hope you take this feedback seriously as I am trying to get my whole development team to use Welkin Suite and this is a major issue for making the switch.
Thanks!
Clark
Posted 06 Apr 2018
Hi Clark,
Thank you greatly for your post and we appreciate your attention to this!
We are aware of some of these issues and our developers are looking for a way to solve them. Some of them are caused by using a custom editor that we have implemented and there is no easy solution for them, however, we don't stop and continue to investigate what we can do to handle them.
We will work for sure on all changes that you have described and I will keep you updated on the progress of this.
If you would find any more inconveniences - please let us know.
Also, we will be happy to see your whole team as TWS users and we will do our best to make The Welkin Suite IDE comfortable for you.
Thank you one more time for your collaboration!
Best regards,
Kate
Kate Dulko
Customer Relations
The Welkin Suite
twitter: @KateDulko
skype id: d_katerina
e-mail: kate.dulko@welkinsuite.com
Posted 26 Jun 2018 and edited 26 Jun 2018
Is there any more news on the editor in Welkinsuite getting some attention re. Lightning componenets? It seems to me that it's a wider discussion with the linting in Welkinsuite. The editor feels a bit behind the curve when it comes to customising it's behaviour and this means no one has customised the editor to betteer support Lightning components. If it were customisable with rules then the community would have already implemented this feature as there is a need for it.
Do we have an ETA for the better lighting integration mentioned by @Kate.Dulko?
Posted 29 Jun 2018 and edited 29 Jun 2018
Hi John,
Thank you for your post and for the question.
Yes, this topic takes one of the important places in our discussions and we will work on this.
However, right now, there is no ETA for this, since currently we are working on preparing one of the great updates of The Welkin Suite and you can find some details on this here. We can guess that this would take some additional time even after releasing all the mentioned updates.
We are aware of issues related to Lightning components editor and there are a lot of improvements to do. Mostly, issues and some absent functionality are caused by the fact that here we use our custom editor, and this requires a lot of additional resources to add some functionality or fix some issue properly. This is why we want to work on the whole bunch of tasks in a frame of one sprint, and right now this is complicated to delineating when exactly we will do this. I believe that this would happen during nearest months.
I will let you know on our updates related to the current topic.
Thank you for your attention and for your interest in The Welkin Suite.
Best Regards,
Kate
Kate Dulko
Customer Relations
The Welkin Suite
twitter: @KateDulko
skype id: d_katerina
e-mail: kate.dulko@welkinsuite.com
Posted 02 Jul 2018 and edited 02 Jul 2018
kate.dulko, on 29 Jun 2018 - 04:33 PM, said:Hi John,
Thank you for your post and for the question.
Yes, this topic takes one of the important places in our discussions and we will work on this.
However, right now, there is no ETA for this, since currently we are working on preparing one of the great updates of The Welkin Suite and you can find some details on this here. We can guess that this would take some additional time even after releasing all the mentioned updates.
We are aware of issues related to Lightning components editor and there are a lot of improvements to do. Mostly, issues and some absent functionality are caused by the fact that here we use our custom editor, and this requires a lot of additional resources to add some functionality or fix some issue properly. This is why we want to work on the whole bunch of tasks in a frame of one sprint, and right now this is complicated to delineating when exactly we will do this. I believe that this would happen during nearest months.
I will let you know on our updates related to the current topic.
Thank you for your attention and for your interest in The Welkin Suite.
Best Regards,
Kate
Thanks for replying Kate. Could Welkin consider implementing a close tie in with the Visual Studio code editor instead of devoting resources to updating the totally custom editor. It seems like re-inventing the wheel. I mean for me personally the updates being worked on for the next release aren't as important to my being able to use Welkinsuite as the lack of Lighting features is. So it looks like I'm back to using Visual Studio Code and Dev console until Welkin Suite catches up. it's a shame because I like the tool set, just not the editor, I'm sure I'm not alone in this.
Posted 01 Aug 2018
Hi John,
Thank you for your suggestions and please sorry for the delay in my response.
We are going to consider and clarify what would be the most proper way so that provide our customers with useful and convenient Lightning editor: should we back a simple editor or spent some more time to solve all the issues which are present in the existing one.
Currently, to back to the previous version of the Lightning editor (when you could open each file separately and there was no Lightning Previewer, however, there were basic code features, like autoformatting or code collapsing, etc) can take the same time as the work on adding the absent functions.
We will make a decision and will work on this on one of the future versions of the IDE, and I will keep you updated on our progress on this.
Thank you for your feedback - we appreciate this a lot.
Regards,
Kate
Kate Dulko
Customer Relations
The Welkin Suite
twitter: @KateDulko
skype id: d_katerina
e-mail: kate.dulko@welkinsuite.com
Posted 19 Sep 2018
Formatting my LC(lightning component) code is the biggest waste of time I have in Welkin Suite IDE. It is a huge problem and dampens my productivity. If I get a lot of LC contracts I am not sure that I can use Welkin Suite IDE anymore.
Any updates here? I am on this forum while I am manually formatting my LCs right now.....
Posted 24 Sep 2018
Hi Justin,
Thank you for your post.
We will work on this for sure since we understand how such basic functionality can influent on user's productivity.
Right now, we are going to solve some issues which are also reported by our community and improve the Field Usage Report, and the work on the Lightning editor is included in your further plans.
Anyway, meantime we are looking for the most proper way to improve the Lightning development in the IDE already now.
We will keep you updated on our progress on this and I will for sure will inform you here when we will solve the current issue.
If you would have any other questions, please let us know - we'll be happy to hear and answer them.
Regards,
Kate
Kate Dulko
Customer Relations
The Welkin Suite
twitter: @KateDulko
skype id: d_katerina
e-mail: kate.dulko@welkinsuite.com
Posted 11 Mar 2019
Is there any timeline to share now? I wonder that there was no progress during the last month.
Posted 11 Mar 2019
Hi Michael,
Thank you for your question.
The work on the Lightning developemnt in TWS has the first priority for the nearest several months for us. We will implement the LWC support, solve the known issues, and improve this functionality in general.
We will keep you update here and on our Blog on our progress on this.
Regards,
Kate
Kate Dulko
Customer Relations
The Welkin Suite
twitter: @KateDulko
skype id: d_katerina
e-mail: kate.dulko@welkinsuite.com
Posted 16 Jan 2020
Hi,
this is still one of the biggest missing features of the welkin suite in my point of view. Still no timeline?
Posted 20 Jan 2020
Hello Michael.
I hope you are doing well!
You could use the autoformatting for the .cmp and .app files. You need to follow the next step for this:
1) Close all bundles.
2) Open the ".cmp" or ".app" file using the "View Code" function from the context menu in the Solution Explorer. (see the attached screenshot)
3) Select all (Ctrl + A) the content in the file and click on the "format selection" button (Ctrl + K, Ctrl + F)
I hope it helps!
TWS Team
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