A guide on Neovim's LSP client

1. minicli

   1 12 1,065 5.1 PHP

   A minimalist framework for command-line applications in PHP

   

   In case you didn't click on the link to intelephense, you should know that is a language server for php. If you just want to test the code I show here, you don't need the php interpreter installed, just the source code of a php project. You can use this repository: minicli, is a decent size codebase and doesn't depend on any other php libraries.

2. InfluxDB

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3. language-server-protocol

   2 131 11,923 8.6 HTML

   Defines a common protocol for language servers.

   

   A language server is an external program that follows the Language Server Protocol. The LSP specification defines what type of messages a language server can receive, and also how it should respond. The idea here is that any tool that follows the LSP specification can communicate with a language server.

4. vscode-intelephense

   3 27 1,729 7.2 TypeScript

   PHP intellisense for Visual Studio Code

   

   I'm going to use intelephense to show the minimal configuration needed to setup a language server in Neovim.

5. nvim-lspconfig

   4 530 12,127 9.8 Lua

   Quickstart configs for Nvim LSP

   

   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.

6. rust-analyzer

   5 138 15,127 10.0 Rust

   A Rust compiler front-end for IDEs

   

   For example, intelephense can show diagnostics in real time, there is no need to save the file to get new diagnostics. But rust-analyzer, the language server for rust, can only update diagnostics after saving the file.

7. ruff-lsp

   6 7 1,468 7.6 Python

   A Language Server Protocol implementation for Ruff.

   

   Here's another example: ruff-lsp, a language server for python. It describes itself as a linter and code formatter. As far as I can tell ruff-lsp does not provide code completions or semantic highlights.

8. typescript-language-server

   7 56 2,142 3.4 TypeScript

   TypeScript & JavaScript Language Server

   

   Sometimes a language server can support multiple filetypes. An example of this is tsserver, the language server for javascript and typescript. In this case a filetype plugin can still work but there is an easier way to go about it.

9. SaaSHub

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