IDE & Tooling

Welcome to the world of BoxLang Tooling!

In this section of the docs, you will find a collection of tools, IDE integrations, and much more to assist you in your BoxLang adventures.

BoxLang IDE

We have an official first-party extension for Visual Studio Code. You can find it in the Visual Studio Code marketplace. It also has its documentation website: https://boxlang-ide.ortusbooks.com/

Introduction | BoxLang IDE

Features at a Glance

• Language server integration

  • Inline documentation

  • Language hints

  • Type information

• Built-in debugger

• Mini BoxLang web server for quick development/testing

• BoxLang version manager

• BoxLang Agentic Coding @boxlang

• Code Highlights and Introspection for supported grammars: Java, HTML, CSS, SQL, CFML

• So much more.

BoxLang Monaco Editor

Monaco Editor language support for BoxLang - providing syntax highlighting, IntelliSense, and custom themes for BoxLang development.

BoxLang Monaco Editor

CLI Tools

We have a collection of CLI tools available to every OS installation:

BoxLang CompilerBoxLang DebuggerCFML Feature AuditCFML Transpiler

Syntax Highlighters

Check out our syntax highlighters page so you can leverage some of them in your applications.

Syntax Highlighters