Made for Pulsar!

This package was written specifically for Pulsar and did not exist in the Atom package repository.

love-pulsar

Coding tooling for making LOVE (love2d) games inside the Pulsar editor. It combines, in one maintained and tested package, the functionality of three Atom-era packages:

autocomplete-love (LOVE API autocomplete)
hyperclick-love (Ctrl/Cmd-click go-to-definition)
love-ide (run LOVE from the editor)

Features

Autocomplete for the love.* API surface. Typing love.gr suggests love.graphics, and love.graphics. lists its members. Each suggestion shows its type, signature, and description, sourced from a bundled dataset (no network at runtime).
Hover docs. Hovering a love.* symbol shows its signature, parameters, returns, and description.
Go-to-definition. Ctrl/Cmd-click a require('foo.bar') to open foo/bar.lua, or a locally defined function to jump to its definition. LOVE API symbols link to their online reference. Unresolved targets produce a notification, never a crash.
Run LOVE. Launch the current project (the nearest ancestor containing main.lua) with the love binary, capture output, surface runtime errors as clickable file:line, and stop the running instance.

Install

From Pulsar:

pulsar -p install love-pulsar

Or clone into your packages directory and build:

git clone <repo> love-pulsar
cd love-pulsar
bun install
bun run build

Commands

love-pulsar:run - launch the current LOVE project.
love-pulsar:stop - stop the running instance.

Settings

LOVE binary path (love-pulsar.loveBinaryPath) - path to the love executable. Empty uses the platform default (love on PATH; the app bundle on macOS; love.exe on Windows).
Source directories (love-pulsar.sourceDirs) - directories, relative to the project root, searched when resolving require() paths. Defaults to ..

Development

bun install        # install dev dependencies
bun test           # run the test suite
bun run build      # compile TypeScript to dist/
bun run typecheck  # type-check without emitting

The architecture keeps all logic pure and host-agnostic under src/ (API dataset, autocomplete, hover, hyperclick resolution, run logic). The Pulsar host API is touched only in src/main.ts, so every feature is unit-tested without a live editor. Fixtures for a sample LOVE project live under test/fixtures/.

License

MIT

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