Neovim 101 — LSP
Neovim supports the Language Server Protocol (LSP). However, setting it up could be daunting for beginners.
In this article, we will start by configuring LSP using the built-in APIs without using any plugins. With this knowledge, we will check out plugins that make the configuration more straightforward and uncomplicated.
This article is part of the Neovim 101 series.
The Neovim configuration files are available in this repository.
Getting Started
Generally, there are 4 ways to configure LSP in Neovim, listed below from high to low in terms of the efforts.
- Use the built-in LSP APIs
- Use the nvim-lspconfig plugin that provides a collection of LSP configurations
- Use plugins that wrap all the LSP boilerplates and configurations
- Use a Neovim distribution that functions like an IDE
We will go through these options in this article.
LSP APIs
Starting Neovim release 0.8, we have new APIs that make it easy to configure LSP without plugins.
