What’s changing

Projects

This new version introduces the concept of projects, which aims to provide a comprehensive solution for running multiple independent Biome LSP sessions across different workspace folders or even individual folders within a mono-repository layout.

Unless explicitly told otherwise, the extension will automatically and transparently create a single project for each workspace folder present in the workspace.

This new version introduces the biome.projects configuration setting to support more complex use cases such as mono-repositories. This setting may be used to explicitly define projects at the workspace level or at the workspace folder level. This setting is ignored when defined globally, as it makes no sense in this case.

In summary, projects open up the possibility of running different versions of Biome in different parts of the user’s code base, with the possibility to use dedicated configuration files if necessary.

Global LSP session

Up until now, the extension used the first available LSP to provide Biome support to Untitled files (files that haven’t yet been saved to disk). While usually not an issue in single-root workspaces, this approach is less ideal in multi-root workspaces where the LSP you’d get depended on the order in which the workspace folders had been opened/added.

To tackle this issue, the extension introduces an on-demand global LSP session dedicated to providing Biome features to Untitled files, and files opened in single-file mode. In workspace mode, this session is automatically destroyed to preserve resources once no more Untitled files are opened in the editor.

Platform-specific binaries

The new biome.lsp.bin configuration setting, which replaces biome.bin brings support for platform-specific binaries. Users will be able to specify the value either a string, or an object that maps platforms to their respective binaries.

Using a string

{
  "biome.lsp.bin": "/path/to/biome"
}

Using an object

{
  "biome.lsp.bin": {
    "linux-x64": "/path/to/biome",
    "linux-arm64-musl": "/path/to/biome",
    "darwin-arm64": "/path/to/biome",
    "win32-x64": "/path/to/biome.exe"
  }
}