vscode-languagedetection

An npm package that uses machine learning to detect source code languages. Powered by @yoeo's guesslang model!

Usage

First install it in your project:

npm install --save @vscode/vscode-languagedetection
# or using yarn
yarn add @vscode/vscode-languagedetection

Then instantiate a ModuleOperations and run the run the model on a string of code:

import { ModelOperations } from "@vscode/vscode-languagedetection";

const modulOperations = new ModelOperations();

const result = await modulOperations.runModel(`
function makeThing(): Thing {
    let size = 0;
    return {
        get size(): number {
        return size;
        },
        set size(value: string | number | boolean) {
        let num = Number(value);
        // Don't allow NaN and stuff.
        if (!Number.isFinite(num)) {
            size = 0;
            return;
        }
        size = num;
        },
    };
}
`);

which will give you the following in order of confidence:

[
  { languageId: 'ts', confidence: 0.48307517170906067 },
  { languageId: 'rs', confidence: 0.10045434534549713 },
  { languageId: 'js', confidence: 0.07833506911993027 },
  { languageId: 'c', confidence: 0.045049071311950684 },
  { languageId: 'lua', confidence: 0.044198162853717804 },
  { languageId: 'cpp', confidence: 0.03847603127360344 },
  { languageId: 'cs', confidence: 0.03298814222216606 },
  { languageId: 'mm', confidence: 0.02999635599553585 },
  { languageId: 'html', confidence: 0.01874217577278614 },
  { languageId: 'sql', confidence: 0.01811739057302475 },
  { languageId: 'swift', confidence: 0.01418407540768385 },
  { languageId: 'pl', confidence: 0.014126052148640156 },
  { languageId: 'md', confidence: 0.01112559624016285 },
  { languageId: 'java', confidence: 0.009976979345083237 },
  { languageId: 'ps1', confidence: 0.009242385625839233 },
  { languageId: 'php', confidence: 0.008150739595293999 },
  { languageId: 'go', confidence: 0.0069260732270777225 },
  { languageId: 'tex', confidence: 0.006594990845769644 },
  { languageId: 'scala', confidence: 0.00619362760335207 },
  { languageId: 'py', confidence: 0.004240741487592459 },
  { languageId: 'r', confidence: 0.0033439004328101873 },
  { languageId: 'matlab', confidence: 0.0030552551615983248 },
  { languageId: 'css', confidence: 0.0026798006147146225 },
  { languageId: 'sh', confidence: 0.0023688252549618483 },
  { languageId: 'ipynb', confidence: 0.002114647999405861 },
  { languageId: 'bat', confidence: 0.0018151027616113424 },
  { languageId: 'hs', confidence: 0.001677449094131589 },
  { languageId: 'erl', confidence: 0.0014191442169249058 },
  { languageId: 'coffee', confidence: 0.000696933304425329 },
  { languageId: 'rb', confidence: 0.0006357143283821642 }
]

Advanced options

By default, this library will work in Node.js. It uses the fs and path modules provided by Node.js to read in the model.json file and the weights file, group1-shard1of1.bin, that are contained in this repo.

You can overwrite that behavior using the first two optional parameters of ModelOperations:

modelJSONFunc?: () => Promise<any> // This must return a JSON.parse() object
weightsFunc?: () => Promise<ArrayBuffer>

These allow you to overwrite the model loading behavior of this package if you happen to be in a non-traditional environment. For an example of this, check out how VS Code is doing it.

The third parameter is the options bag that has:

• minContentSize?: number - The minimum number of characters in a file to be considered for language detection. Defaults to 20.
• maxContentSize?: number - The maximum number of characters that will be used in a file to be considered for language detection. Defaults to 100000.

Local development

To build from source, follow these steps:

1. Clone the repository
2. Run npm install
3. Run npm run watch

To run the tests, simply run npm test.

To build a production package:

1. Run npm run build
2. Run npm pack

To publish this package, run npm publish.

Contributing

This project welcomes contributions and suggestions. Most contributions require you to agree to a Contributor License Agreement (CLA) declaring that you have the right to, and actually do, grant us the rights to use your contribution. For details, visit https://cla.opensource.microsoft.com.

When you submit a pull request, a CLA bot will automatically determine whether you need to provide a CLA and decorate the PR appropriately (e.g., status check, comment). Simply follow the instructions provided by the bot. You will only need to do this once across all repos using our CLA.

This project has adopted the Microsoft Open Source Code of Conduct. For more information see the Code of Conduct FAQ or contact opencode@microsoft.com with any additional questions or comments.

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