StyLua VS lua-language-server

Use and enforce a style with StyLua) or LuaFormatte and neovim can autoformat for ya.

stylua.toml is the config file of Stylua not of sumneko-lua

Starting from version 0.14.0, StyLua (the Lua code formatter in Neovim world) implements option collapse_simple_statement. From release notes:

Check out StyLua if you want a code formatter.

Here is the instruction how to install and config.

RUN wget -O stylua-0.11.0-linux.zip https://github.com/JohnnyMorganz/StyLua/releases/download/v0.11.0/stylua-0.11.0-linux.zip && \ unzip stylua-0.11.0-linux.zip && \ rm stylua-0.11.0-linux.zip && \ chmod +x stylua

If your function call has only one argument and it happens to be a literal string or a table, then you might want to eliminate the parenthesis. Use whatever style you prefer, the later is useful for some DSLs. Let stylua auto format it anyway.

Have you tried any external programs to format your code instead? That's what I usually do. Just set 'formatprg', and use gq to format the code. With a quick search I found LuaFormatter, and StyLua, but I can't say if they format the code the way you want. In my experience, external code formaters will do a better job, and they have more options to tweak as well.

Have a look at https://github.com/JohnnyMorganz/StyLua together with https://github.com/jose-elias-alvarez/null-ls.nvim

I personally use https://github.com/JohnnyMorganz/StyLua and I am seeing it a lot in some popular projects like telescope.nvim, nvim-lspconfig and ther is also a PR to include it into neovim itself to format the lua files.

Check the documentation of lua_ls

You can use LLS extension for VSCode. Documentation: https://github.com/LuaLS/lua-language-server/wiki/Annotations

There's lua-language-server which works with types defined in definition files and/or annotations in comments.

Lastly, neovim now supports semantic token highlighting which uses semantic tokens from LSP servers to provide even better, language specific highlighting. Some LSP servers support semantic tokens for doc comments. The lua language server is a good example. Unfortunately, if you're using a language like C or C++, the language servers do not provide semantic tokens for comments because doxygen style comments are not specific to those languages so you might be out of luck for semantic token highlighting.

I think it is because the language server send a different type for the first line: https://github.com/LuaLS/lua-language-server/blob/eeffd1462b892fda5d01282acf840ba0e154e467/script/core/hover/label.lua (might be one of the other files here, not label)

And I was reading this installation guide and after "./bin/lua-language-server " I get this in terminal

Not sure about typescript but there is a jsdoc equivalent: https://github.com/LuaLS/lua-language-server/wiki/Annotations

Lua with lua-language-server and annotated types is a much nicer experience.

For it to be language-aware (like provide suggestions for module/table/class methods/fields) you also need language server (like lua_ls for Lua). But even without it you should see suggestions from fallback method. If you don't, then 'mini.completion' is not installed and/or activated.

I also want to thank current & past GitHub sponsors who help finance costs associated with the plugin. I regularly pay the surplus forward to other devs whose tooling I heavily rely on (huge shout-out to sumneko for working on the Lua language server, without it a plugin of the complexity of mason.nvim would be impossible, go sponsor them here).