nvim-lspinstall VS lua-language-server

A word of caution, I believe lspinstall has been deprecated in favor of nvim-lspinstall which itself has also been deprecated in favor of mason-lspconfig

kabouzeid/nvim-lspinstall will aide in installing lsp's if you want. I have chosen not to because I want to have my full setup scripted so when I setup any new machine I just run my ansible-playbook. This library is nice to just set things up quick and play with them.

nvim-lspinstall

I'm trying to edit a lua file, and got this error which I realize is because I didn't have the Lua language server installed. So using the LspInstall plugin, I did :LspInstall lua which was successful.

Once you have it installed, you can configure it following the configuration of this file: https://github.com/kabouzeid/nvim-lspinstall/wiki. The part that ia bellow the comment "-- lsp-install" works and it was what I used initially when I didn't really know much about configuring neovim.

I am using lspinstall to install language server. It uses this json-language-server. As the docs says jsonc is supported and it allows comments in jsonc filetypes but the lsp is not showing diagnostic if I make any other syntax error. On line 34 i have removed a comma and still lsp showing no diagnostic error in jsonc file.

You could try to use the instructions that nvim-lspinstall uses to install the tailwindcss language server: https://github.com/kabouzeid/nvim-lspinstall/blob/main/lua/lspinstall/servers/tailwindcss.lua (lines 4 - 12)

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).