lua-language-server

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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 nearly a million installs in Visual Studio Code, it is the most popular extension for Lua language support.

See our website for more info.

Features

• ⚙️ Supports Lua 5.5, 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.

See installation instructions on our website.

👁 Install in VS Code
👁 Install for NeoVim
👁 Install for command line

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 🇧🇷
• ja-jp 🇯🇵
• es-419 🇪🇸

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