I am doing work for somebody who would like their JavaScript library organized into categories: CRUD functions, Form functions, etc. They really like the utility of regions in C# and are asking for this in their JavaScript file. Any suggestions? I am using Visual Studio 2017 and Team Foundation Server.
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For VS 2019, Microsoft has fully implemented regions for Javascript, they work exactly they way they work in C#, only, you have to preface the beginning and end of the regions as comments, for example:
//#region My Region
function foo(){
*//code*
}
//#endregion
For anything prior to VS 2019, See Michael Drum's answer. His shortcut also works in VS 2019.
The link in the given answer is broken. Here is a great plugin which I use daily and no issue so far:
PS: Not tried this with other than VS 2017
a Lot of people have already answered on how to get this in Visual studio I will however suggest a different approach. Since #region is a tag limited to visual studio, it will mostly not be detected by other editors.
But in most other editors, they do however recognize "if" and "while" conditions. You can use if (1) and While(1) to create blocks of collapsible code that can be folded.
for eg
// This is a comment for the code block below
if(1){
....
...
}
you will get a -/+ sign next to this code block in many others editors (Unless you are using basic notepad)
You can try this if using razor or asp web forms, just replace @ with <% and end with %>.
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