Factorio Lua API autocomplete

Simon Vizzini

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Autocompletion for the Factorio Lua API
Installation
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Factorio API autocomplete extension

Features

  • Autocomplete of all Lua classes and globals

    autocomplete

  • Mouse hover tooltips, with links to the official documentation at http://lua-api.factorio.com

    tooltips

Dev Requirements

Using nvm you can get the correct node version to run the scraper: nvm use.

After this install the necessary modules with npm install.

Update data

Run the scrapper to pull the latest data from the Factorio API documentation: npx ts-node scraper/index.ts

Todo

Features

  • Better support for functions that take tables as argument
  • Function signature hints (registerSignatureHelpProvider)

Technical tasks

  • Instead of storing inherited properties in the data file, they should maybe get looked up during runtime
  • Unit tests

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