lua-language-server
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
- 📄 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 easily be installed for use in VS Code, but it can also be used by other clients using the command line.
Visual Studio Code
The language server and Visual Studio Code client can be installed from the VS Code Marketplace.
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 NeoVim and other clients that follow the language server protocol.
Supported Lua Versions
| Version | Supported |
|---|---|
| Lua 5.1 |  |
| Lua 5.2 | |
| Lua 5.3 | |
| Lua 5.4 | |
| LuaJIT | |
Links
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
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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!
Configuration
Configuration of the server can be done in a number of ways, which are explained more in-depth in the wiki.
Visual Studio Code
You can use the settings editor or edit the raw JSON file.
Other
See the configuration file wiki page.
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
Credit
Software that the language server (or the development of it) uses: