Announcing meteor-goto a new vscode plugin

grubba · April 30, 2026, 1:29pm

this is not official, this is an experiment.

One of the things I’ve always wanted in Meteor was a way to see the source of a method/publication(cmd+click a meteor.call and see its implementation)

And now with AIs, we can make some of these wishes come true! I’ve spent a few hours^[1] to get this:

This extension is quite simple, you get a view to see all your Methods and publications^[2], and if you click to see the source of a meteor.call or meteor publish, you should be redirected to its implementation.

My plans for the future are:

I know some people have helpers to create methods/publications, so I wonder if I can have a setting to register those in the same way we have for call and publish
I know some people have helpers to call these publications/methods, we should be able too to register that.

To install this extension, you can either search in the extensions marketplace like this:

Screenshot 2026-04-30 at 10.24.19

Or get it in the marketplace itself: Meteor Go-to-Definition - Visual Studio Marketplace

Feedback?

Please test it and let me know if you see any issue!

How was this implemented?

I’ve done vscode extensions in the past, but it has been quite a while, the whole logic is in:

github.com

Grubba27/meteor-goto/blob/991325374006a9623f158bd7dcdfe95f9b14ccc6/src/logic.ts#L1-L491


      
          /**
           * Pure logic module — no VS Code imports.
           * All regex matching, position calculation and name extraction lives here
           * so it can be unit-tested without a VS Code extension host.
           */
          
          export interface LineCol {
            line: number;
            character: number;
            /** Populated when scanning all symbols (no specific name requested). */
            name?: string;
          }
          
          // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
          // Shared utilities
          // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
          
          export function escapeRegex(s: string): string {
            return s.replace(/[.*+?^${}()|[\]\\]/g, "\\$&");
          }

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and a ton of tokens ↩︎
made with Meteor.methods/publish, we are still working in other ways ↩︎