Editor Support
Whether you’re just starting or are a seasoned Tilter, writing Tiltfiles should not be tedious.
We want to make it easy to experiment with your Tiltfile, so you can experience the magic of Tilt’s responsiveness with minimal interruptions to your development flow, that includes switching context to look up Tiltfile documentation.
We’re offering Tiltfile support for VS Code and select IDEs of the JetBrains suite.
All code is public and open source. We appreciate contributions of all kinds.
VS Code
The official Tiltfile extension is available at the VS Code marketplace.
It provides syntax highlighting, autocomplete and signature support for Tiltfile functions.
TextMate bundles
The tiltfile.tmbundle offers syntax highlighting for any IDEs supporting TextMate bundles, like IntelliJ GoLand, PyCharm or WebStorm.
Emacs
Tilt is compatible with Emacs’ lsp-mode.
To enable it, install lsp-mode and add the following to your .emacs:
(require 'python-mode)
(define-derived-mode tiltfile-mode
python-mode "tiltfile"
"Major mode for Tilt Dev."
(setq-local case-fold-search nil))
(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("Tiltfile$" . tiltfile-mode))
(with-eval-after-load 'lsp-mode
(add-to-list 'lsp-language-id-configuration
'(tiltfile-mode . "tiltfile"))
(lsp-register-client
(make-lsp-client :new-connection (lsp-stdio-connection `("tilt" "lsp" "start"))
:activation-fn (lsp-activate-on "tiltfile")
:server-id 'tilt-lsp)))
Other editors
Tilt embeds its own language server based on Tree Sitter.
https://github.com/tilt-dev/starlark-lsp
To run it locally, run:
tilt lsp start
Adding Tiltfile support to a new editor usually requires a few lines of config to start the language server and connect.