Languageclient-neovim: Using the MSFT CSS / HTML language servers?

[fortes]

(Sorry, this isn't an actual bug report, my apologies for breaking format but hoping perhaps someone in the community can answer).

First off, thanks a lot for your effort here in creating this plugin. I've got it working great for JavaScript. I'd like to hook it up for editing CSS files, but I'm hitting a stumbling block.

MSFT has a CSS language server, I'm wondering if anyone else has managed to get it working with this plugin? Does the plugin only support language servers that do stdio?

[autozimu]

I found this implementation, https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-css-languageservice, which might be closer to your situation.

Either way, it seems some extra work need to be done on language server side, as I don't think currently the server can be started standalone and communicate through stdio or tcp. A simple shim might be sufficient.

For now, this plugin only supports stdio to communicate to language servers.

[fortes]

Thanks for taking the time to answer!

[mqudsi]

• CSS: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-css-languageservice
• JSON: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-json-languageservice
• HTML: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-html-languageservice

[jrunning]

FWIW I just stumbled upon the vscode-langservers organization, which has published binaries (in the "-bin" repos) for the above three services. The binaries each take an --stdio argument. Setting it up with LanguageClient-neovim looks something like this:

$ npm install -g vscode-html-languageserver-bin

Then:

let g:LanguageClient_serverCommands = {
    \ 'html': ['html-languageserver', '--stdio'],
    \ }

It runs without error. I didn't get much farther than that, but I wanted to mention it for anyone else who might be interested.

[autozimu]

That's neat! Thanks for sharing.

[fortes]

Great find @jrunning - thanks!

[DeltaEvo]

@jrunning @fortes I'm the owner of vscode-langservers, for the moment it's WIP because completion need snippet support for the client so you only have diagnostics for the moment but I will notify you when it will be ready ;)