# vscode-languagedetection

**Repository Path**: mirrors_microsoft/vscode-languagedetection

## Basic Information

- **Project Name**: vscode-languagedetection
- **Description**: An npm package that uses ML to detect source code languages
- **Primary Language**: Unknown
- **License**: MIT
- **Default Branch**: main
- **Homepage**: None
- **GVP Project**: No

## Statistics

- **Stars**: 0
- **Forks**: 0
- **Created**: 2021-07-22
- **Last Updated**: 2025-09-06

## Categories & Tags

**Categories**: Uncategorized

**Tags**: None

## README

# vscode-languagedetection

An npm package that uses machine learning to detect source code languages. Powered by [@yoeo](https://github.com/yoeo)'s [guesslang](https://github.com/yoeo/guesslang) model!

## Usage

First install it in your project:

```sh
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:

```ts
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:
```ts
[
  { 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`:

```ts
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](https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/blob/3a1cf8e51e3797a2d9ccb12d207378de364596c4/src/vs/workbench/services/languageDetection/browser/languageDetectionService.ts#L60-L80).

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.

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This project has adopted the [Microsoft Open Source Code of Conduct](https://opensource.microsoft.com/codeofconduct/).
For more information see the [Code of Conduct FAQ](https://opensource.microsoft.com/codeofconduct/faq/) or
contact [opencode@microsoft.com](mailto:opencode@microsoft.com) with any additional questions or comments.

## Trademarks

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trademarks or logos is subject to and must follow 
[Microsoft's Trademark & Brand Guidelines](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/legal/intellectualproperty/trademarks/usage/general).
Use of Microsoft trademarks or logos in modified versions of this project must not cause confusion or imply Microsoft sponsorship.
Any use of third-party trademarks or logos are subject to those third-party's policies.