nvim-lspinstall VS neovim

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)

As a software engineer, choosing and understanding your text editor is important part of your work, as it impacts your productivity and workflow efficiency. It's like choosing the perfect tool for any trade - you need to know what tool to use and how to use it effectively if you want to excel. For me, I use Neovim as my editor and I have been using it for a little over a year now.

This got me thinking about my recent pivot, my switch to Neovim by way of LazyVim to write most of my code, and using tmux to keep terminal states alive after closing a session.

Neovim: Make sure you have Neovim installed on your system. You can check the official website for installation instructions: https://neovim.io/ Git: We'll be using Git to clone the LazyVim starter pack. If you don't have Git, you can download it from https://git-scm.com/downloads

There are several ways to install Neovim. This wiki provides several guidelines on how to install Neovim.

All these thoughts I've shared, I would have them on occasion - but ever since I switched to Linux and Neovim, my curiosity has been through the roof. Switching over to Neovim and Linux was a not so fun weekend of configuration and spending half a day getting my work's local dev environment running on my new OS (which no one has tested development on). But I now have a deeper understanding of the tools I use, and have a text editor configured to be the most optimal for the way I want to use it.