Groovy IntelliSense for Visual Studio Code

Forked from https://github.com/DontShaveTheYak/groovy-guru

Since groovy-guru did not update for a long time, I forked the project and fix some problems that I met. Check the changelog for details.

Changelog

• 0.1.3 (2025-07-21)
  • Lock dependecies
• 0.1.2 (2025-05-28)
  • Add groovy.lsp.debug variable to enable debug mode for the Groovy Language Server.
• 0.1.1 (2025-05-19)
  • Use the latest Groovy Language Server
  • Patch the Groovy Language Server patch
• 0.1.0 (2025-05-15)
  • Just fork the groovy-guru project and give it a new name.

Quick Start

Welcome! 👋🏻
Whether you are new to Groovy or an experienced Groovy developer, we hope this extension fits your needs and enhances your development experience.

• Step 1. If you haven't done so already, install Java 1.8 aka 8 and the VS Code Groovy extension.
  • Managing extensions in VS Code.
• Step 2. To activate the extension, open any directory or workspace containing Groovy code and look for the thumbs up! 👍

You are ready to get Groovy :-)    🎉🎉🎉

Features

The extension is currently a work-in-progress but does provide basic IntelliSense. We plan to extend this extension to include code navigation and code editing.

• Code completion and Signature help
• See GroovyDoc strings on Classes, Fields, Methods and Functions.

Build from source

You first need to build the language server.

yarn run build

Now you can install it into vscode.

• Using the CLI

  code --install-extension easy-groovy-0.x.y.vsix

• Using the GUI

  • Type ctrl + shift + p
  • Then type Extensions: Install from VSIX
  • Then find this directory and select easy-groovy-0.x.y.vsix

Acknowledgements

• Groovy Language Server