Official VS Code and Cursor extension for Spanglings — learn Spanish through compiler diagnostics, Language Server Protocol (LSP) feedback, and interactive exercises designed specifically for software engineers.
Features
Real-Time Language Diagnostics: As you edit exercises or Spanish markdown files, the built-in Spanglings LSP validates grammar, verb conjugations, and accent rules directly in your editor problems pane and inline squiggles.
Exercise Tree Explorer: Browse tracks, view completion status, and jump straight to exercises from the Spanglings Activity Bar view.
Status Bar Progress & Streaks: Monitor your current streak, SRS review status, and daily progress at a glance in the bottom status bar.
Command Palette Integration:
Spanglings: Open Next Exercise: Quickly navigate to the next incomplete exercise.
Spanglings: Conjugate Verb: Look up verb conjugations in multiple tenses on the fly.
Spanglings: Open Reference Browser: Open Spanish grammar and technical terminology reference tables.
Spanglings: Sync Progress / State: Manually sync exercise state and refresh diagnostics.
Requirements
Spanglings CLI: Install the spanglings binary (e.g. via cargo install spanglings or from source) and ensure it is available in your $PATH or configured in extension settings.
Extension Settings
This extension contributes the following settings:
spanglings.executablePath: Path to the spanglings executable binary (default: "spanglings").
spanglings.strictAccents: Enforce strict accent mark checking during exercise compilation and LSP diagnostics (default: false).
spanglings.enableLsp: Enable or disable the built-in Spanglings Language Server client (default: true).
Development
# Install dependencies
npm install
# Compile the extension
npm run compile
# Watch for changes during development
npm run watch
# Package build
npm run vscode:prepublish
