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Lua Language Server coded by Lua
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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.

Features

  • ⚙️ Supports Lua 5.4, Lua 5.3, Lua 5.2, Lua 5.1, and LuaJIT
  • 📄 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
  • 📖 Documentation Generation

Install

The language server can be installed for use in Visual Studio Code, NeoVim, and any other clients that support the Language Server Protocol. The language server can be configured using a configuration file. For a more detailed intro, check out the getting started page in the wiki.

Visual Studio Code

Install in VS Code

The language server and Visual Studio Code client can be installed from the VS Code Marketplace.

NeoVim

Install for NeoVim

View the installation instructions for NeoVim in the nvim-lspconfig repo.

For a guide to getting started from scratch using Mason, read Heiker's guide.

Command Line

Install for command line

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 with other clients that follow the language server protocol.

Community Install Methods

The install methods below are maintained by community members.

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Links

  • Changelog
  • Wiki
  • FAQ
  • Report an issue
  • Suggest a feature
  • Discuss

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。❤️

Available Languages

  • en-us 🇺🇸
  • zh-cn 🇨🇳
  • zh-tw 🇹🇼
  • pt-br 🇧🇷

Note All translations are provided and collaborated on by the community. If you find an inappropriate or harmful translation, please report it immediately.

Are you able to provide a translation? It would be greatly appreciated!

Thank you to all contributors of translations!

Privacy

The language server had opt-in telemetry that collected usage data and sent it to the development team to help improve the extension. Read our privacy policy to learn more. Telemetry was removed in v3.6.5 and is no longer part of the language server.

Contributors

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Credit

Software that the language server (or the development of it) uses:

  • bee.lua
  • luamake
  • LPegLabel
  • LuaParser
  • ScreenToGif
  • vscode-languageclient
  • lua.tmbundle
  • EmmyLua
  • lua-glob
  • utility
  • vscode-lua-doc
  • json.lua
  • EmmyLuaCodeStyle
  • inspect.lua
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