Service Mesh Performance IDE Plugin

[leecalcote]

Current Behavior

The objective of this issue is to develop IDE plugins that can enhance the developer experience while working with Service Mesh Performance Performance Profiles. The proposed plugins will leverage technologies such as golang and cuelang to provide features such as syntax highlighting, auto-completion, validation, and rendering previews for Service Mesh Performance profile and model definitions.

Desired Behavior

1. Release VS Code Extension
2. Syntax Highlighting and Auto-completion: The plugin can fetch SMP Model definitions such as cloud-native components and their relationships. This information can be used to provide syntax highlighting and auto-completion for these definitions in the JSON files, making it easier for developers to write error-free code.
3. Validation and Reference: For Meshery MeshModel definitions such as cloud-native components and their relationships, the plugin can use the CUE language to provide validation for the CUE input and preview the rendering result. The plugin can also fetch the SMP Model schemas and display them in the IDE for reference.

Implementation

Acceptance Tests

Mockups

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Contributor Guides and Resources

• 🛠 Meshery Build & Release Strategy
• 📚 Instructions for contributing to documentation
  • Meshery documentation site and source
• 🎨 Wireframes and designs for Meshery UI in Figma
• 🙋🏾🙋🏼 Questions: Layer5 Discussion Forum and Layer5 Community Slack

[salsabiilashifa11]

Hi @leecalcote, my name is Shifa, a final year computer science student from ITB. I have been familiarizing myself with SMP and its implementation within meshery for some time now and I found this project very interesting. I have experience with automata design and language parsing tasks that I think can help me accomplish this project. As an elementary effort to understand this project better, I have made an attempt to put together a simple proposal at https://github.com/salsabiilashifa11/smp-ide-plugin-proposal. Please do take a look :)

I also have some questions:

1. Is this the right folder to check out to learn more about the Meshery MeshModel definitions that you mentioned in this issue?
2. What form of rendering result did you have in mind for the preview to be in?

Thank you very much and I hope you have a nice day.

[Azanul]

Hi @salsabiilashifa11, Thank you for showing interest!
The proposal looks quite promising, I'll provide more feedback once I've taken a better look at it.
Answers to your questions:

1. Yes, it is the folder but it could be a bit difficult to make sense of it all without proper context.

2. An example of a reference:
   

   An example of validation
   

Feel free to ask more questions if you need

[leecalcote]

@ShivamCoder23, you might have seen and reviewed this previously. I'll tag you just in case.