Bicep.core documentation

[Cairn23]

Were is a good place to find the documentation on Bicep.core, and how to use it. I want to create an alternate editor, so need to understand how to use the core library to find lists of Azure components, API versions, the list of properties and if the property is mandatory, property description etc.

Thanks in advance.

[anthony-c-martin]

If you're just looking to obtain type information, then this might be what you're looking for: https://gist.github.com/anthony-c-martin/4bd775ff8a74f21aef70ea13fc4ac993

Dotnet Fiddle: https://dotnetfiddle.net/AmpNHz

[Cairn23]

I need some what more information than just the type information, hence needing to find documentation on bicep.core. The information must be around as I did find a reference that other parties could use the core code abase and its library, and its available through nugget packages.

[anthony-c-martin]

It's available here, but we unfortunately haven't been able to prioritize documentation, hence the note in the README:

If you're building editor support, I'd highly recommend checking out the LSP spec - we publish a language server adhering to this spec that's used for VSCode support.

Otherwise, you could check out Codebase Overview, and follow through some of the language server handlers to understand how we analyze a .bicep file. I also have a gist here which shows you the minimal code needed to build a compilation.