Re: JavaScript/TypeScript: What do people in 2024, on emacs 29, use for .js, .jsx, .ts and .tsx?

[Steinar Bang]

>>>>> Dmitry Gutov <dmitry@gutov.dev>:

> js-mode handles JSX indeed, but it's inevitaby limited in what it
> understands about its syntax (it uses sgml-mode under the covers to do
> highlighting, but I'm sure there would be odd edge cases).

Ah, ok. Thanks for the update!

> The latest new option in 29.1 is js-ts-mode (which uses tree-sitter
> parser and supports JSX too). It should provide the most accurate
> highlighting and reliable indentation,

Hm... interesting! I ran into the tree-sitter thing, yesterday, while
looking for documentation for the the js-mode of emacs 29.

> but some features (like tag splitting?) might have to be reimplemented
> anew. Should be easier to do that using tree-sitter parse tree than
> with sgml-mode. Perhaps if rjsx-mode has an implementation, it
> wouldn't be too hard to port it.

I'll do a dive into the rjsx code and see if I can identify where it
does tag splitting and post back on the thread here.