# vscode-json-languageservice
JSON language service extracted from VSCode to be reused, e.g in the Monaco editor.

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Why?
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The _vscode-json-languageservice_ contains the language smarts behind the JSON editing experience of Visual Studio Code
and the Monaco editor.
 - *doValidation* analyses an input string and returns syntax and lint errors.
 - *doComplete* provides completion proposals for a given location. *doResolve* resolves a completion proposal
 - *doResolve* resolves a completion proposals.
 - *doHover* provides a hover text for a given location.
 - *findDocumentSymbols* provides all symbols in the given document
 - *findDocumentColors* provides all color symbols in the given document, *getColorPresentations* returns available color formats for a color symbol.
 - *format* formats the code at the given range.
 - *getFoldingRanges* gets folding ranges for the given document
 - *getSelectionRanges* gets selection ranges for a given location.
 - *getMatchingSchemas* matches a document against its schema and returns all AST nodes along with the matching sub schemas

 - use *parseJSONDocument* create a JSON document from source code, or *newJSONDocument* to create the document from an AST.

Installation
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    npm install --save vscode-json-languageservice