Language Server Protocol and Implementation: Supporting Language-Smart Editing and Programming Tools

© The Author(s), under exclusive license to APress Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2022

N. Gunasinghe, N. MarcusLanguage Server Protocol and Implementationhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7792-8_3

3. Implementing a Language Server

Nadeeshaan Gunasinghe¹   and Nipuna Marcus²

(1)

Walahanduwa, Sri Lanka

(2)

Mawathagama, Sri Lanka

 

In Chapter 2, we discussed the Language Server Protocol and how it works. In this chapter, let’s look at how to implement a Language Server and what tools we need to implement it. When implementing a Language Server, it is not only the language features we need to focus on, but also we should have an underlying protocol implementation. As we discussed in Chapter 2, the Language Server Protocol is implemented on top of the ...