diff --git a/docs/en/nodes/widgets/ui-template.md b/docs/en/nodes/widgets/ui-template.md
index 6e4829f11..e12dc0779 100644
--- a/docs/en/nodes/widgets/ui-template.md
+++ b/docs/en/nodes/widgets/ui-template.md
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ When Node-RED uses its default Monaco code editor, the template editor understan
 - Vue syntax is highlighted, including directives (`v-if`, `v-for`, ...), bindings (`:prop`), events (`@click`), slots (`#activator`) and `{{ }}` expressions, which are highlighted as JavaScript.
 - Typing `<v-` suggests Vuetify components. Inside a Vuetify tag, you get suggestions for its props, bound props (`:`), events (`@`) and, on a `<template>` inside a component, that component's slots (`#`). Props with a fixed set of values, such as `variant`, suggest those values.
 - Hovering over a Vuetify component, prop, event or slot shows its type, default and description, with a link to the Vuetify API docs.
+- With a Node-RED version that supports code in `<script>` and `<style>` blocks, you also get JavaScript completion, hover information, parameter hints and error checking inside `<script>`, and CSS completion, checking and colour previews inside `<style>`. `this` knows your component's `data`, `computed` and `methods`, as well as what Dashboard adds, such as `this.send()`, `this.msg` and `this.$socket`.
 
 The component information matches the version of Vuetify that ships with the Dashboard and is loaded from Node-RED itself, so it works offline. Editors using ACE keep the plain HTML mode.
 
diff --git a/nodes/plugins/vue-editor.html b/nodes/plugins/vue-editor.html
index 57fd7d54e..17600a17d 100644
--- a/nodes/plugins/vue-editor.html
+++ b/nodes/plugins/vue-editor.html
@@ -30,14 +30,23 @@
             env.vueSfcWorkerShim = true
         }
 
+        /** Newer Node-RED versions register HTML-like languages itself, including the worker mapping */
+        function nodeRedRegistersHtmlLanguages () {
+            return typeof RED.editor?.codeEditor?.monaco?.registerHTMLLanguage === 'function'
+        }
+
         function registerHtmlLanguageService (monaco) {
+            const options = { data: { useDefaultDataProvider: true } }
+            if (nodeRedRegistersHtmlLanguages()) {
+                RED.editor.codeEditor.monaco.registerHTMLLanguage(LANGUAGE_ID, options)
+                return
+            }
             // Monaco 0.55 moved monaco.languages.html to monaco.html
             const html = monaco.html?.registerHTMLLanguageService ? monaco.html : monaco.languages.html
             if (!html?.registerHTMLLanguageService) {
                 return
             }
-            const options = Object.assign({}, html.htmlDefaults?.options, { data: { useDefaultDataProvider: true } })
-            html.registerHTMLLanguageService(LANGUAGE_ID, options)
+            html.registerHTMLLanguageService(LANGUAGE_ID, Object.assign({}, html.htmlDefaults?.options, options))
         }
 
         /**
@@ -63,7 +72,9 @@
             const query = version ? '?v=' + encodeURIComponent(version) : ''
             const base = new URL('resources/' + MODULE + '/vue-editor/', document.baseURI)
             monaco.languages.onLanguage(LANGUAGE_ID, function () {
-                shimWorkerLabel()
+                if (!nodeRedRegistersHtmlLanguages()) {
+                    shimWorkerLabel()
+                }
                 import(new URL('vue-sfc.mjs' + query, base).href)
                     .then(m => m.activate(monaco, { dataUrl: new URL('vuetify.json' + query, base).href }))
                     .catch(err => console.warn('Dashboard: could not load the Vue editor support', err))
diff --git a/nodes/widgets/locales/en-US/ui_template.json b/nodes/widgets/locales/en-US/ui_template.json
index c55e1c3a7..486618b5c 100644
--- a/nodes/widgets/locales/en-US/ui_template.json
+++ b/nodes/widgets/locales/en-US/ui_template.json
@@ -18,6 +18,9 @@
             "template": "Template",
             "expand": "Expand",
             "resend": "Reload last value on refresh."
+        },
+        "errors": {
+            "invalid-template": "Error in template code"
         }
     }
 }
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/nodes/widgets/ui_template.html b/nodes/widgets/ui_template.html
index f20bdfffc..18d3c0393 100644
--- a/nodes/widgets/ui_template.html
+++ b/nodes/widgets/ui_template.html
@@ -149,6 +149,14 @@
                 height: { value: 0 },
                 head: { value: '' },
                 format: { value: defaultTemplate },
+                // number of errors the code editor reported when the edit dialog was last saved (set in oneditsave)
+                noerr: {
+                    value: 0,
+                    // two parameters, so Node-RED shows the returned message (a one-parameter validator's result is coerced to a boolean)
+                    validate: function (v, opt) {
+                        return !v ? true : c_('errors.invalid-template')
+                    }
+                },
                 storeOutMessages: { value: true },
                 passthru: { value: true },
                 resendOnRefresh: { value: true },
@@ -428,6 +436,7 @@
     <div class="form-row" style="margin-bottom:0px;">
         <label for="node-input-format" style="width:110px;"><i class="fa fa-copy"></i> <span data-i18n="ui-template.label.template"></span></label>
         <input type="hidden" id="node-input-format">
+        <input type="hidden" id="node-input-noerr">
         <button id="node-template-expand-editor" class="red-ui-button red-ui-button-small" style="float:right"><i class="fa fa-expand"></i></button>
     </div>
     <div class="form-row node-text-editor-row" style="display: block;">
diff --git a/resources/vue-editor/vue-script.mjs b/resources/vue-editor/vue-script.mjs
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..0adad15ec
--- /dev/null
+++ b/resources/vue-editor/vue-script.mjs
@@ -0,0 +1,148 @@
+/* eslint-env browser */
+/* global RED */
+/**
+ * JavaScript and CSS editing for the <script> and <style> blocks of a ui-template (`vue-sfc` language).
+ *
+ * Node-RED provides the machinery (RED.editor.codeEditor.monaco.registerEmbeddedLanguages, in newer
+ * Node-RED versions). This module only adds what is specific to Dashboard: the type of `this`. Dashboard runs a
+ * ui-template script in one of two ways (ui/src/widgets/ui-template/UITemplate.vue, ui/src/util/vue.acorn.js):
+ *  - a script whose only statement is `export default { ... }` is a Vue component; Node-RED's hidden copy
+ *    of it becomes `export default __uiTemplate({ ... })`, which types `this` in data, computed, methods,
+ *    watch, mounted and unmounted
+ *  - any other script runs inside `mounted`, so it is wrapped in a function whose `this` is the component
+ * Both see what Dashboard adds to the component: send(), submit(), msg, value, id, props, $socket, ...
+ */
+
+const TYPES_PATH = 'file:///node_modules/@types/node-red-dashboard-ui-template/index.d.ts'
+
+/** Type declarations for the ui-template component instance */
+export const UI_TEMPLATE_TYPES = `
+/** Members that Dashboard adds to every ui-template component */
+interface UiTemplateContext {
+    /** The ID of this ui-template node, assigned by Node-RED */
+    readonly id: string
+    /** The configuration of this ui-template node */
+    readonly props: { name?: string, templateScope?: string, [key: string]: any }
+    /** The last message received by this ui-template node */
+    readonly msg: { payload?: any, topic?: string, [key: string]: any }
+    /** Get or set \`msg.payload\` of the last message */
+    value: any
+    /** Send a message to the Node-RED flow. A non-object value is sent as \`msg.payload\`. */
+    send(msg: any): void
+    /** Send an event to the Node-RED flow, with \`topic\` set to the event type */
+    submit(event: Event): void
+    /** The socket.io connection to Node-RED */
+    readonly $socket: {
+        on(event: string, listener: (...args: any[]) => void): any
+        off(event: string, listener?: (...args: any[]) => void): any
+        emit(event: string, ...args: any[]): any
+        [key: string]: any
+    }
+    /** Last message received by every widget, by widget ID */
+    readonly messages: Record<string, any>
+    /** Dashboard setup information */
+    readonly setup: any
+    readonly $dataTracker: any
+    /** The Dashboard Vuex store */
+    readonly $store: any
+    /** The Dashboard router */
+    readonly $router: any
+    /** The current route */
+    readonly $route: any
+    /** The Vuetify instance */
+    readonly $vuetify: any
+    /** The root DOM element of this component */
+    readonly $el: any
+    /** Elements and components registered with \`ref\` */
+    readonly $refs: Record<string, any>
+    readonly $data: Record<string, any>
+    readonly $parent: any
+    readonly $root: any
+    readonly $options: Record<string, any>
+    /** Trigger a custom event on this component */
+    $emit(event: string, ...args: any[]): void
+    /** Wait for the next DOM update */
+    $nextTick(fn?: () => void): Promise<void>
+    /** Watch a reactive property or getter */
+    $watch(source: string | (() => any), callback: (value: any, oldValue: any) => void, options?: { immediate?: boolean, deep?: boolean }): () => void
+    /** Force this component to re-render */
+    $forceUpdate(): void
+}
+type UiTemplateComputed<C> = { [K in keyof C]: C[K] extends (...args: any[]) => infer R ? R : C[K] extends { get(): infer G } ? G : never }
+type UiTemplateInstance<D, C, M> = D & UiTemplateComputed<C> & M & UiTemplateContext
+type UiTemplateWatcher = ((value: any, oldValue: any) => void) | { handler: (value: any, oldValue: any) => void, deep?: boolean, immediate?: boolean }
+/** The options that a ui-template component supports */
+declare function __uiTemplate<D = {}, C = {}, M = {}>(component: {
+    name?: string
+    data?: (this: UiTemplateContext) => D
+    computed?: C & ThisType<UiTemplateInstance<D, C, M>>
+    methods?: M & ThisType<UiTemplateInstance<D, C, M>>
+    // \`this\` in these comes from the ThisType below; typing it here as well stops TypeScript inferring D, C and M
+    watch?: Record<string, UiTemplateWatcher>
+    mounted?: () => void
+    unmounted?: () => void
+    /** Dashboard ignores other options (it logs a warning); allowed here so that one doesn't stop \`this\` being typed */
+    [option: string]: any
+} & ThisType<UiTemplateInstance<D, C, M>>): void
+`
+
+// whitespace and comments, which Dashboard allows around a component (they aren't statements)
+const GAP = String.raw`(?:\s|\/\/[^\n]*(?:\n|$)|\/\*(?:[^*]|\*(?!\/))*\*\/)*`
+
+/**
+ * Where a ui-template script is a component: Dashboard treats it as one when its only statement is
+ * `export default { ... }`.
+ * @param {string} body - the script's code
+ * @returns {{ open: number, close: number } | null} offsets (in body) of the object's `{` and `}`
+ */
+export function findComponent (body) {
+    const head = new RegExp(`^${GAP}export\\s+default\\s*(?=\\{)`).exec(body)
+    const tail = new RegExp(`\\}\\s*;?${GAP}$`).exec(body)
+    return head && tail ? { open: head[0].length, close: tail.index } : null
+}
+
+/**
+ * The `wrap` hook for registerEmbeddedLanguages: text to insert around a script so `this` has its type.
+ * @param {string} text - the ui-template
+ * @param {{start: number, end: number}} region - the script's code
+ * @param {number} index - the script's position in the template
+ * @returns {{at: number, text: string}[]} insertions at offsets in the ui-template
+ */
+export function wrapScript (text, region, index) {
+    const component = findComponent(text.slice(region.start, region.end))
+    if (component) {
+        return [
+            { at: region.start + component.open, text: '__uiTemplate(' },
+            { at: region.start + component.close + 1, text: ')' }
+        ]
+    }
+    return [
+        { at: region.start, text: `/** @this {UiTemplateContext} */ function __uiTemplateScript${index} () {` },
+        { at: region.end, text: '\n}' }
+    ]
+}
+
+/**
+ * Registers Dashboard's script and style support with Node-RED's code editor.
+ * @param {object} monaco - the monaco namespace (unused, kept for the same signature as vue-sfc.mjs)
+ * @param {object} options
+ * @param {string} options.languageId - the ui-template language id (vue-sfc)
+ * @returns {boolean} false if this Node-RED doesn't provide registerEmbeddedLanguages
+ */
+export function activate (monaco, { languageId }) {
+    const register = RED.editor?.codeEditor?.monaco?.registerEmbeddedLanguages
+    if (typeof register !== 'function') {
+        return false
+    }
+    register(languageId, {
+        javascript: {
+            wrap: wrapScript,
+            extraLibs: [{ content: UI_TEMPLATE_TYPES, filePath: TYPES_PATH }],
+            hiddenNames: /^__uiTemplate/,
+            // list the component's own members before the Vue/Dashboard `$` members
+            demotedNames: /^\$/
+        },
+        css: {}
+    })
+    return true
+}
diff --git a/resources/vue-editor/vue-sfc.mjs b/resources/vue-editor/vue-sfc.mjs
index d5bbb5882..30370e190 100644
--- a/resources/vue-editor/vue-sfc.mjs
+++ b/resources/vue-editor/vue-sfc.mjs
@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@
  *    are tokenized with JavaScript embedded; <script> and <style> blocks embed JavaScript/TypeScript and CSS/SCSS/Less)
  *  - Vue and Vuetify completion and hover for tags, props, events, slots and directives, using Vuetify's
  *    web-types data for the Vuetify version bundled with the Dashboard (see scripts/build-vue-editor-data.js)
+ *  - on Node-RED versions that support it, JavaScript and CSS in <script> and <style> blocks, with Dashboard's
+ *    `this` types (vue-script.mjs)
  *
  * The HTML language service (completion, hover, formatting, folding from Monaco's html worker) is registered by
  * the plugin itself, because it has to be in place before the language is first used.
@@ -604,5 +606,13 @@ export function activate (monaco, { dataUrl }) {
         }
     })
 
+    // JavaScript and CSS in <script> and <style> blocks come from Node-RED (newer versions), which this adds
+    // Dashboard's `this` types to. Loaded with the same cache-busting query as this module.
+    if (typeof globalThis.RED?.editor?.codeEditor?.monaco?.registerEmbeddedLanguages === 'function') {
+        import(new URL('./vue-script.mjs' + new URL(import.meta.url).search, import.meta.url).href)
+            .then(script => script.activate(monaco, { languageId: LANGUAGE_ID }))
+            .catch(err => console.warn('vue-sfc: could not load <script> support', err))
+    }
+
     return { ready }
 }
diff --git a/test/resources/vue-script.spec.js b/test/resources/vue-script.spec.js
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..ae036ab23
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/resources/vue-script.spec.js
@@ -0,0 +1,105 @@
+const path = require('path')
+const { pathToFileURL } = require('url')
+
+const should = require('should') // eslint-disable-line no-unused-vars
+
+describe('vue-editor <script> support (ui-template code editor)', function () {
+    let script
+    before(async function () {
+        script = await import(pathToFileURL(path.join(__dirname, '../../resources/vue-editor/vue-script.mjs')).href)
+    })
+
+    // what Node-RED's registerEmbeddedLanguages does with the insertions (see monaco-embedded.js)
+    function applyInsertions (text, insertions) {
+        let out = text
+        for (const ins of insertions.slice().sort((a, b) => b.at - a.at)) {
+            out = out.slice(0, ins.at) + ins.text + out.slice(ins.at)
+        }
+        return out
+    }
+    const scriptRegion = (text) => {
+        const start = text.indexOf('<script>') + '<script>'.length
+        return { start, end: text.indexOf('</script>') }
+    }
+
+    describe('findComponent', function () {
+        it('finds the object of a single export default, like Dashboard does', function () {
+            const body = '\n// a comment\nexport default {\n    data () { return {} }\n}\n'
+            const c = script.findComponent(body)
+            body[c.open].should.equal('{')
+            body[c.close].should.equal('}')
+            body.slice(c.close + 1).should.equal('\n')
+            should(script.findComponent('/* x */ export default {};')).not.be.null()
+        })
+        it('allows // and /* */ comments before and after the component', function () {
+            const comments = ['// a {', '/* a { */', '/*\n * a {\n */']
+            for (const before of comments) {
+                for (const after of comments) {
+                    const body = `\n${before}\nexport default {}\n${after}\n`
+                    const c = script.findComponent(body)
+                    should(c).not.be.null()
+                    body.slice(c.open, c.close + 1).should.equal('{}')
+                }
+            }
+            for (const body of ['export default {} // bye', 'export default {}; /* bye */', '/* a */ export default {}\n// b\n/* c */']) {
+                should(script.findComponent(body)).not.be.null()
+            }
+        })
+        it('treats anything else as raw JavaScript', function () {
+            should(script.findComponent('const a = 1\nexport default {}')).be.null()
+            should(script.findComponent('this.send({ payload: 1 })')).be.null()
+            should(script.findComponent('export default { }\nconsole.log(1)')).be.null()
+        })
+    })
+
+    describe('wrapScript', function () {
+        it('wraps a component in __uiTemplate( ... )', function () {
+            const text = '<template><div/></template>\n<script>\nexport default {\n    data () { return { a: 1 } }\n}\n</script>'
+            const wrapped = applyInsertions(text, script.wrapScript(text, scriptRegion(text), 0))
+            wrapped.should.containEql('export default __uiTemplate({\n    data () { return { a: 1 } }\n})\n</script>')
+        })
+        it('wraps raw JavaScript in a function whose this is the component', function () {
+            const text = '<div id="x"></div>\n<script>\nthis.send({ payload: 1 })\n</script>'
+            const wrapped = applyInsertions(text, script.wrapScript(text, scriptRegion(text), 2))
+            wrapped.should.containEql('<script>/** @this {UiTemplateContext} */ function __uiTemplateScript2 () {\nthis.send({ payload: 1 })\n\n}</script>')
+        })
+        it('only inserts inside the script region', function () {
+            const text = '<script>\nexport default {}\n</script>'
+            const region = scriptRegion(text)
+            for (const ins of script.wrapScript(text, region, 0)) {
+                ins.at.should.be.within(region.start, region.end)
+            }
+        })
+    })
+
+    describe('UI_TEMPLATE_TYPES', function () {
+        it('describes what Dashboard adds to the component', function () {
+            for (const member of ['send(msg: any)', 'submit(event: Event)', 'readonly msg:', 'readonly id:', 'readonly props:', 'value: any', 'readonly $socket:', 'readonly $store:', 'readonly $router:', 'readonly $vuetify:']) {
+                script.UI_TEMPLATE_TYPES.should.containEql(member)
+            }
+            script.UI_TEMPLATE_TYPES.should.containEql('declare function __uiTemplate<D = {}, C = {}, M = {}>(')
+        })
+    })
+
+    describe('activate', function () {
+        afterEach(function () { delete global.RED })
+
+        it('registers the wrapper, types and CSS with Node-RED', function () {
+            const calls = []
+            global.RED = { editor: { codeEditor: { monaco: { registerEmbeddedLanguages: (id, options) => calls.push({ id, options }) } } } }
+            script.activate({}, { languageId: 'vue-sfc' }).should.be.true()
+            calls.should.have.length(1)
+            calls[0].id.should.equal('vue-sfc')
+            const { javascript, css } = calls[0].options
+            javascript.wrap.should.equal(script.wrapScript)
+            javascript.extraLibs[0].content.should.equal(script.UI_TEMPLATE_TYPES)
+            javascript.hiddenNames.test('__uiTemplateScript0').should.be.true()
+            javascript.demotedNames.test('$socket').should.be.true()
+            css.should.eql({})
+        })
+        it('does nothing on Node-RED versions without registerEmbeddedLanguages', function () {
+            global.RED = { editor: { codeEditor: { monaco: {} } } }
+            script.activate({}, { languageId: 'vue-sfc' }).should.be.false()
+        })
+    })
+})