Feature request: IDE tool to find the source definition and documentation of a JS symbol

[mikew67]

Don't know what IDE or smart editor everyone is using, but it sure would be helpful for us newbies to be able to click on a symbol, e.g. in example code, and go to either the definition of it in the same body of source, in included source, in a module, etc., and the documentation for it, if available.

Not sure how much work this would take, but here's an option:

• Embed your toolchain in Xcode, just like the embedXcode project did. Not sure how much work this is, but you get a whole bunch of IDE capability for free, e.g., the above requested lookup, git integration, symbol completion, etc.

[mikew67]

As a temporary measure for navigating through the documentation, I've converted the entire documentation directory to a PDF portfolio (attached below). Each top level folder, e.g., devices, is a separate PDF document in the portfolio/collection. Each md file is a separate bookmark in its PDF file. This has the advantage of preserving the structure of the current documentation, while allowing fast searches through the entire collection. Hope this is useful; it is to me.
Moddable Documentation.pdf

[mikew67]

The last comment included a PDF snapshot of the Moddable documentation in this repo as a PDF portfolio. Some people had trouble handling portfolios, so here is the same material collected in a single PDF file (with bookmarks). Hope this helps:
Moddable docs.pdf

[mikew67]

The Markdown online docs collected into the Moddable docs.pdf are sufficient for searching the complete document set for specific words. Therefore, closing this issue until a better idea for organizing and indexing the online docs comes along.