☂️ Implement biome search output formatting

[arendjr]

Description

The biome search command will be functionally similar to git grep: Where git grep uses regular expressions to search through all files in a Git repository, biome search will use Grit patterns to search through all files in a Biome project.

This command will serve as a proof-of-concept for our Grit runtime.

Even though the engine for this command is not yet ready, we could already proceed implement the output formatter. It should be similar to how diagnostics are reported, where arbitrary TextRanges can be highlighted and diagnostics can be presented alongside them. Except for this command, the ranges will represent matches for a given pattern.

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[BackupMiles]

Hi! Can this issue be assigned to me?

[arendjr]

Of course!

Just keep in mind you’ll need to make a little bit of a “dummy data provider” that will generate the matches for the output to display. The rest of the biome search infrastructure is there, so you can probably find the TODOs where this can be implemented and go from there. Have you already looked into this? I’d be happy to give more detailed pointers as well.

[BackupMiles]

I will definitely start from the TODOs then! Today I will dedicate the whole day to it, so I will definitely be asking lots of questions.
Would it be better to ask in here or Discord?

[arendjr]

@BackupMiles Great! I’ve created a topic for it on Discord, biome search command under Development.