Lua development just got a whole lot better 🧠
The Lua language server provides various language features for Lua to make development easier and faster. With around half a million installs on Visual Studio Code, it is the most popular extension for Lua language support.
- 📄 Over 20 supported annotations for documenting your code
- ↪ Go to definition
- 🦺 Dynamic type checking
- 🔍 Find references
⚠️ Diagnostics/Warnings- 🕵️ Syntax checking
- 📝 Element renaming
- 🗨️ Hover to view details on variables, functions, and more
- 🖊️ Autocompletion
- 📚 Support for libraries
- 💅 Code formatting
- 💬 Spell checking
- 🛠️ Custom plugins
The language server can easily be installed for use in VS Code, but it can also be used by other clients using the command line.
The language server and Visual Studio Code client can be installed from the VS Code Marketplace.
Check the wiki for a guide to install the language server for use on the command line. This allows the language server to be used for NeoVim and other clients that follow the language server protocol.
| Version | Supported |
|---|---|
| Lua 5.1 | |
| Lua 5.2 | |
| Lua 5.3 | |
| Lua 5.4 | |
| LuaJIT |
If you find any mistakes, please report it or open a pull request if you have a fix of your own ❤️
如果你发现了任何错误，请告诉我或使用Pull Requests来直接修复。❤️
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Configuration of the server can be done in a number of ways, which are explained more in-depth in the wiki.
You can use the settings editor or edit the raw JSON file.
See the configuration file wiki page.
This language server has opt-in telemetry that collects usage data and sends it to the development team to help improve the extension. Read our privacy policy to learn more.
Software that the language server (or the development of it) uses: