typescript-language-server no longer maintained

[lynndylanhurley]

It looks like the typescript-language-server library is no longer actively maintained (source).

There's another language server that supports both javascript and typescript that seems to be more active (javascript-language-server). Would that be a better option?

I didn't really want to make a github issue out of this since this isn't really one but I just realized that coc-tsserver from coc.nvim works on singular .ts files without actually initializing a typescript project in that directory while this both this and tsserver only work if there's a tsconfig. Is there any way I can obtain the same behavior here ?

Both my typescript and lua are trash but I think it's because of the default values coc-tsserver comes with.
https://github.com/neoclide/coc-tsserver/blob/bac002caef532d6dc58c10a2885eeed463082d4f/package.json

Edit: It seems it's not really possible in this case.
sourcegraph/javascript-typescript-langserver#433

[lynndylanhurley]

@pyrr yeah I think we're dependent on the language server itself for that. Not sure why that issue was closed - did they resolve the issue maybe?

I don't think so.

[leungbk]

It looks like the typescript-language-server library is no longer actively maintained (source).

There's another language server that supports both javascript and typescript that seems to be more active (javascript-language-server). Would that be a better option?

The repo you are suggesting hasn't received any updates to the actual source code in more than a year---really, look at the commit history. That project also has some problems with memory leaks: sourcegraph/javascript-typescript-langserver#447

It might be easier for someone to take over the Theia project instead.

[saltmade]

I'd like to promo this issue as well that asks Microsoft to make TSServer (theirs) support LSP (also theirs) microsoft/TypeScript#11274.

[glepnir]

This is the reason why I have not switched to use nvim-lsp from coc. coc-tsserver has always worked great. And typescript-lang-server is no longer maintained

[whitebyte]

FWIW Sourcegraph language server mentioned by OP also seems abandoned, all the activity there comes from deps-update bots

[lynndylanhurley]

@whitebyte are there any other options? The coc-tsserver plugin seems to work really well for coc.nvim. Is there any way to adapt that plugin to work for nvim-lsp?

[whitebyte]

@lynndylanhurley unfortunately I'm not aware of any other options

[lynndylanhurley]

@kuator I ended up switching back to coc. I'm mostly using TS these days and coc-tsserver is just way better than the nvim-lsp typescript plugin.

[pyrho]

@lynndylanhurley I've switched from coc to lsp for the past week. While I agree that it's worrying that typescript-language-server is no longer maintained, I don't really have an issue with my current LSP setup compared to coc.

May I know what did not work for you?

[lynndylanhurley]

@pyrho I kept getting stale / glitchy linting errors. Also the editor would occasionally freeze completely 1-2 times per day.

I switched back to coc to see if that resolved the issue. I haven't had the freezing issue at all, but I do occasionally get bad linting results. In those cases I can just run CocReset and it resolves the issue. Not sure if there's an equivalent command for the nvim LSP - the only way I knew how to resolve with nvim-lsp was to exit vim and restart.

[pyrho]

I did notice a bad freeze/hang/OOM with LSP that I never had with coc; thanks for sharing.