Lucee Editors & IDEs

Here are the Modern IDEs which include support for CFML development

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VS Code

https://code.visualstudio.com

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=CFMLEditor.cfmleditor

For complete contextual inline Lucee help with cfmleditor, there is a complete Lucee json dictionary using the cfdocs schema available lucee-docs-json.zip, there is also a double zipped version (stored and then zipped) lucee-docs-json-zipped.zip which is less than half the size of the normal zipped version.

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=CFMLEditor.cfmleditor-lint

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=streetsidesoftware.code-spell-checker

Step debugging Lucee with VS Code (highly recommended!)

LuceeDebug supports step debugging via breakpoints via a java agent and a VS Code extension

Lucee Step Debugger Installation Guide

Sublime Text

https://www.sublimetext.com

https://github.com/jcberquist/sublimetext-cfml

https://github.com/ckaznocha/SublimeLinter-contrib-CFLint

Adobe ColdFusion Builder

https://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion-builder.html

CFLint

https://github.com/cflint/CFLint is a very useful tool for linting (validating) your CFML code, there is integration available for many IDE's or you can run it in standalone mode over your whole code base

here is a sample .cflintrc file which reduces the noise

{
	"rule" : [ ],
	"excludes": [{"code":"ARGUMENT_ALLCAPS_NAME"},{"code":"ARGUMENT_HAS_PREFIX_OR_POSTFIX"},
		{"code":"ARGUMENT_INVALID_NAME"},{"code":"ARGUMENT_IS_TEMPORARY"},
		{"code":"ARGUMENT_TOO_LONG"},{"code":"ARGUMENT_TOO_SHORT"},{"code":"ARG_DEFAULT_MISSING"},
		{"code":"ARG_HINT_MISSING"},{"code":"ARG_HINT_MISSING_SCRIPT"},
		{"code":"ARG_TYPE_ANY"},{"code":"ARG_TYPE_MISSING"},{"code":"AVOID_USING_ARRAYNEW"},
		{"code":"AVOID_USING_CFABORT_TAG"},{"code":"AVOID_USING_CFDUMP_TAG"},
		{"code":"AVOID_USING_CFINCLUDE_TAG"},{"code":"AVOID_USING_CFMODULE_TAG"},{"code":"AVOID_USING_CREATEOBJECT"},
		{"code":"AVOID_USING_DEBUG_ATTR"},{"code":"AVOID_USING_ISDATE"},{"code":"AVOID_USING_STRUCTNEW"},
		{"code":"COMPONENT_HINT_MISSING"},{"code":"COMPONENT_INVALID_NAME"},
		{"code":"COMPONENT_TOO_LONG"},{"code":"COMPONENT_TOO_WORDY"},{"code":"EXCESSIVE_ARGUMENTS"},
		{"code":"EXCESSIVE_FUNCTIONS"},{"code":"EXCESSIVE_COMPONENT_LENGTH"},{"code":"EXCESSIVE_FUNCTION_LENGTH"},
		{"code":"UNUSED_METHOD_ARGUMENT"}, {"code":"SQL_SELECT_STAR"},
		{"code":"EXPLICIT_BOOLEAN_CHECK"},{"code":"FUNCTION_HINT_MISSING"},{"code":"FUNCTION_TOO_COMPLEX"},
		{"code":"FUNCTION_TYPE_ANY"},{"code":"FUNCTION_TYPE_MISSING"},{"code":"GLOBAL_LITERAL_VALUE_USED_TOO_OFTEN"},
		{"code":"GLOBAL_VAR"}, {"code":"LOCAL_LITERAL_VALUE_USED_TOO_OFTEN"},{"code":"METHOD_INVALID_NAME"},
		{"code":"METHOD_IS_TEMPORARY"},{"code":"METHOD_TOO_LONG"}, {"code":"METHOD_TOO_WORDY"},{"code":"NESTED_CFOUTPUT"},
		{"code":"OUTPUT_ATTR"},{"code":"PACKAGE_CASE_MISMATCH"},{"code":"STRUCT_ARRAY_NOTATION"},
		{"code":"UNQUOTED_STRUCT_KEY"},{"code":"VAR_ALLCAPS_NAME"},{"code":"VAR_HAS_PREFIX_OR_POSTFIX"},
		{"code":"VAR_IS_TEMPORARY"},{"code":"VAR_TOO_LONG"},{"code":"VAR_TOO_SHORT"},{"code":"VAR_TOO_WORDY"},
		{"code":"SCOPE_ALLCAPS_NAME"}, {"code":"AVOID_USING_ABORT"}, {"code":"VAR_INVALID_NAME"},
	],
	"includes" : [ ],
	"inheritParent" : false
}