Meerkat for VS Code

Suricata/Snort formatter extension for VS Code

Features

Meerkat provides the following features:

• Syntax highlighting

Signature checking with suricata

Signature formatting

The Auto-formatting uses the default hotkeys in your code editor

Hover information

Variable references/renaiming

The rename feature uses the default hotkeys in your code editor

Code completion

Code snipplets

PCAP Testing

Warning: pcap visualization only works if additional third party extenssions are installed. Please install one of the available extenssions to be able to open pcap files in VS Code.

• Rule linting (TOOD)
• Rule performance statistics (TODO)

Installation troubleshooting

Unexpected token '?'

If you get the following error:

SyntaxError: Unexpected token '?'
    at wrapSafe (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:915:16)
    at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:963:27)

The issue is most probably the version of the Node that you're using.

Vulnerabilities, while installing with npm

The issue is most probably related to the version of npm used. Try updating npm:

npm update

This command should tell you if you have an older version of npm and give you the line you need to run to update it