NGINX Configuration Language Support installs statistics
By ahmadalli · VS Code Marketplace · Programming Languages
Nginx configuration helper for Visual Studio Code with many features including syntax highlight, auto-complete, in-editor documents, embedded Lua block, and more
NGINX Configuration Language Support has 583,201 recorded installs on VS Code Marketplace, ranking #779 of 2,502 tracked listings.
Rating: 4.93 / 5 from 15 ratings
About NGINX Configuration Language Support
Nginx config file hint(auto-completion) for VS Code
A Visual Studio Code extension that helps you write Nginx configuration files. Many features in it include syntax highlight, auto-complete, in-editor documents, embedded Lua block, and more.
Why Fork?
The upstream repo seems to be left unmaintained and there was compatibility issue with raynigon.nginx-formatter extension because the upstream projects used NGINX as language id while the formatter extension uses nginx and therefore it's not possible to use both extensions on the same file
Installation
- Click
Extensionbutton in left side of VSCode. (Shortcut: <kbd>Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>Shift</kbd>+<kbd>X</kbd> or <kbd>Command</kbd>+<kbd>Shift</kbd>+<kbd>X</kbd>) - Search for
ahmadalli.vscode-nginx-confand click theInstallbutton. - Reload VSCode.
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Features
- Syntax highlight for Nginx configuration file
- Support syntax of Lua block in Nginx configuration file
- Autocomplete directives, variables, location, media types, path, and more
- Hint directive arguments and usage
- Provide Nginx snippets
- Provide directives and snippets from OpenResty
- Menu item "Goto Nginx Document" for display related Nginx document in the editor
Changelog
0.3.1 (2024-02-29)
- Update hint data to Dec 5th, 2023. @AdrianDsg
- Nginx directives
- Lua Resty directives
- HTTP headers
- MIME types
- Add completion for HTTP headers
- Add two file extension names
.conf.defaultand.conf.template. @halilim - Fix syntax for constant values, language keywords
- Update Nginx beautifier
0.3.0 (2021-11-20)
:mega: There are a lot of updates in this version:
- The syntax of the Nginx configuration file is updated completely
- Because the syntax from sublime extension and shanoor's repo are long time no updates. So I write a syntax generator for better highlight
- New syntax is generated from codes. You can find them in generate-tmLanguage.ts
- New syntax supports embedded Lua block
- New syntax supports the directive statement in multiple lines
- And extension configuration
nginx-conf-hint.syntaxis removed
- Optimize hint data loader and document loader. They use less memory now and load data on demand
- This extension can run as a web extension. So you can use this extension on https://vscode.dev/ now
- The coverage of auto-completion is more, and auto-completion is smarter
- Auto completion is based on the context and grammar of the configuration now
- Fix some wrong auto-completion items
- Autocomplete named location
- Autocomplete directive's named argument
- Autocomplete media types
- Add editor definition support for
locationdirective - Add new extension configuration
nginx-conf-hint.externalModulesfor controlling enabled of external modules hint data - The source code is rewritten by using Typescript
Declaration
- Icon image of this extension is from extension nginx.conf
- This project uses the file src/libs/nginxbeautifier.js from https://github.com/vasilevich/nginxbeautifier
- This extension is published under the GPL-3.0 license
Building & Contributing
Please check out the document CONTRIBUTING.md for information about building/contributing this project
Author
LiuYue(hangxingliu): Author of the Original Project
Contributors
- Adrian Dischinger: Contributor of the Original Project
- Halil Özgür: Contributor of the Original Project
- @tiansin: Contributor of the Original Project
- @latipun7: Contributor of the Original Project
Description from the VS Code Marketplace listing.
- auto-completion
- configuration
- lua
- NGINX
- NGINX Conf
- OpenResty
- snippet
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Listing: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ahmadalli.vscode-nginx-conf. First seen Oct 16, 2026; last successful collection Oct 21, 2026. See the methodology.