nvim-lspconfig VS nvim-jdtls

Neovim (via nvim-lspconfig + mason)

Packages that we will use : blink.cmp for autocompletion, typescript-tools for the typescript LSP, neovim/nvim-lspconfig to set up the LSP, and Mason so we can install volar.

Check configs.md to ensure your language's LSP server is present there and edit the configs/lspconfig.lua file to add your language's LSP.

Neovim Install the nvim-lspconfig plugin to make configuration of the LSP client simpler. Then update your init.lua to tell Neovim which filetypes to use the language server for (i.e. .kt and .kts extensions). The LSP client will try to the start the sever by running the kotlin_language_server binary. You can directly point Neovim to the location of the binary, or include this directory in your $PATH.

👉 With LSP in this installation, I use Coc for its simplicity without the need to intervene in the Coc configuration. LSP has been very useful in my Helix modal editor to configure Helixu.

neovim/nvim-lspconfig: Quickstart configs for Nvim LSP

I suggest looking for blog posts about this, you're gunnuh wanna pick out a plugin manager and stuff. It's kind of like a package manager for neovim. You can install everything manually but usually you manually install a plugin manager and it gives you commands to manage the rest of your plugins.

These two plugins are the bare minimum in my view.

https://github.com/nvim-treesitter/nvim-treesitter

Treesitter gives you much better syntax highlighting based on a parser for a given language.

https://github.com/neovim/nvim-lspconfig

This plugin helps you connect to a given language LSP quickly with sensible defaults. You more or less pick your language from here and copy paste a snippet, and then install the relevant LSP:

https://github.com/neovim/nvim-lspconfig/blob/master/doc/ser...

For Python you'll want pylsp. For JavaScript it will depend on what frontend framework you're using, I probably can't help you there.

pylsp itself takes some plugins and you'll probably want them. https://github.com/python-lsp/python-lsp-server

Best of luck! Happy hacking.

Adding language support it neovim isn't very difficult once you're setup. I use nvim-lspconfig[1] and just about any language you could need is documented[2]. But like others have mentioned there are batteries included distributions of neovim if that's your cup of tea.

[1]: https://github.com/neovim/nvim-lspconfig/

[2]: https://github.com/neovim/nvim-lspconfig/blob/master/doc/ser...

If we can't find the basic usage in the documentation we can go to nvim-lspconfig's github repository. In there we look for a folder called server_configurations, this contains configuration files for a bunch of language servers.

I recommend that you do not configure jdtls like the other language servers, it is better to use the nvim-jdtls plugin.

Java is actually pretty good with Neovim, jdtls and this plugin. One of the best language servers and I'm using it on a regular base with medium to large projects, mostly spring-based. No Android though.

I can get by with https://github.com/mfussenegger/nvim-jdtls

This and this provided no viable solutions for me

I tried to configure jdtls for my NeoVim I followed https://github.com/mfussenegger/nvim-jdtls install instruction. and I faced this error does anyone successfully configured jdtls ? help T ^ T

Am I adding it to the wrong configuration option? Some places I see it added as a referencedLibary - https://github.com/mfussenegger/nvim-jdtls

Sure. Any server that lspconfig supports will work. But for java development is better if you use nvim-jdtls. The documentation in lsp-zero has a guide on how to setup nvim-jdtls.

Here' my java.lua for nvim-jdtls which solves the nil issue and add more features.