Make sure node
and tsc
are installed and in your PATH. There are detailed instructions below. Get the typescript code for the jsonrpc protocol with
git clone git@github.com:microsoft vscode-languageserver-node.git
`util.ts`` expects it to be in your HOME directory
If you want to reproduce the existing files you need to be on a branch with the same git hash, for instance, git checkout 7b90c29
Code is generated and normalized by
tsc code.ts && node code.js && gofmt -w ts*.go
(code.ts
imports util.ts
.) This generates 3 files in the current directory, tsprotocol.go
containing type definitions, and tsserver.go
, tsclient.go
containing API stubs.
go.ts
and requests.ts
use the Typescript compiler's API, which is introduced in their wiki.code.ts
and util.ts
are filled with heuristics and special cases. Therefore they are tied to a specific commit of vscode-languageserver-node
. The hash code of the commit is included in the header of the generated files and stored in the variable gitHash
in go.ts
. It is checked (see git()
in util.ts
) on every execution.ts*.go
files is only semi-automated. Please file an issue if the released version is too far behind.gitHash
by hand (git()
shows how to find the hash).code.ts
. This will likely fail because the heuristics don't cover some new case. For instance, some simple type like string
might have changed to a union type string | [number,number]
. Another example is that some generated formal parameter may have anonymous structure type, which is essentially unusable.internal/lsp/protocol
and try to build gopls
and its tests. This will likely fail because types have changed. Generally the fixes are fairly easy. Then run all the tests.gopls
.(The instructions are somewhat different for Linux and MacOS. They install some things locally, so $PATH
needs to be changed.)
sudo apt update
(if you can't sudo
then these instructions are not helpful)sudo apt install nodejs
(this may install /usr/bin/nodejs
rather than /usr/bin/node
. For me, /usr/bin/nodejs
pointed to an actual executable /etc/alternatives/nodejs
, which should be copied to /usr/bin/node
)sudo apt intall npm
bin
directory in your path, perhaps?)sudo npm install -g npm
is the command.)node -v
and npm -v
should produce version numbers.npm install typescript
.npm
and node_modules
(and a package_lock.json
file)tsc
will be in node_modules/.bin
, so put that directory in your path.tsc -v
should print “Version 3.7.2” (or later). If not you may (as I did) have an obsolete tsc earlier in your path.npm install @types/node
(Without this there will be many incomprehensible typescript error messages.)