loadmap for VS Code
loadmap draws a system's architecture as a live capacity model: the load
flows through it as dots, and a ranked list says which component runs out first and at what multiple of today's
load. This extension makes VS Code an editor for its .loadmap files, with the help the docs' editor gives and the
diagram live beside the text.
The preview
loadmap: Open Preview to the Side (the button over a .loadmap editor, or Ctrl+K V, ⌘K V on a Mac) draws the
file as it is typed: the scenarios and the load, Play for the story, pan and zoom, a box's details on hover, and the
panels the definition asks for. It follows the .loadmap editor in front, keeps the load and the controls through
your edits, and while the text has an error shows the problems over the last version that drew. Click a box to
select its declaration; put the cursor in a box's declaration to pick it on the board. It takes VS Code's light or
dark theme.
Copy Share Link and Open in the Live Editor (over the preview, or from the command palette) put the text,
with the values the preview shows, in a link to the docs' editor. The text travels in the link's #, which never
reaches a server; loadmap.editorUrl points them at a copy of the docs hosted elsewhere.
The preview runs nothing but the extension's own files: no network, no eval. A definition's formulas are read as a
syntax tree, never run as code, so opening someone else's file is safe.
The language
- highlighting made from the language's own table of statements;
- errors and failing
expect lines as you type;
- completion with snippets, the arguments of a call, and hover with the values at the defaults;
- quick fixes, go to definition, find references, rename and an outline;
- Format Document, the one layout
loadmap fmt writes.
The language server is loadmap lsp from @loadmap/cli, bundled in:
nothing else to install, and it works offline. To use a project's own version instead (the one its CI checks with),
set loadmap.server.path to that command, such as node_modules/.bin/loadmap; in a workspace you have not
trusted, the bundled server always runs.
The language guide: https://jaim3r0jas.github.io/loadmap/language/ · MIT
