Reason Language Server

This project implements the Language Server Protocol for Reason.

It is written in Reason, and compiled via bsb-native. The goal is for it to work equally well on Windows, MacOS, and Linux.

Installation

VS Code

Install through VS Code extensions. Search for reason-vscode:

Visual Studio Code Marketplace: reason-vscode

Can also be installed with VS Code Quick Open: press Cmd/Ctrl + P, paste the following command, and press enter.

ext install jaredly.reason-vscode

OniVim

Oni has support for Reason baked in, and it only needs a little bit of configuration to integrate this langauge server.

Download the your-platform.zip file from the latest release, unzip it, and put the reason-language-server.exe file somewhere.
Open the Oni config file ( Ctrl/Cmd + ,), and add the following to the export const configuration = { block at the end:

    "language.reason.languageServer.command": "/abs/path/to/your/reason-language-server.exe",
    "language.reason.languageServer.arguments": [],
    "language.reason.languageServer.configuration": {},

And you're done!

Sublime Text

Install the sublime reason plugin for syntax highlighting, etc. (has to be done manually)
Install the LSP Plugin via the Sublime Text Package Manager
Download the your-platform.zip file from the latest release, unzip it, and put the reason-language-server.exe file somewhere.
Ctrl/Cmd + Shift + P and type "Preferences: LSP Settings" to bring up the settings file, and put in:

{
  "auto_show_diagnostics_panel": false,
  "clients": {
    "reason": {
      "enabled": true,
      "command": ["/absolute/path/to/reason-language-server.exe"],
      "scopes": ["source.reason"],
      "syntaxes": ["Packages/sublime-reason/Reason.tmLanguage"],
      "languageId": "reason"
    }
  }
}

Vim

Download the your-platform.zip file from the latest release, unzip it, and put the reason-language-server.exe file somewhere.
Install the vim-reason-plus plugin, following the README. Add the following to your .vimrc file:

let g:LanguageClient_serverCommands = {
    \ 'reason': ['/absolute/path/to/reason-language-server.exe']
    \ }

Emacs

TODO people have gotten it to work with emacs, but I don't know the steps.

What about the ocaml-language-server?

That project uses merlin under the hood, which is a very powerful and well-developed tool for IDE features in OCaml/Reason. I had a couple of reasons for starting a new one. The biggest is that I wanted something with minimal dependencies, so that windows support would be relatively easy, and so that I might be able to ship it with bucklescript at some future point. (it also makes targetting JS easier). I also wanted a server that was written entirely in Reason (not part typescript, part reason), and something that was written from the ground up with the Langauge Server Protocol in mind, instead of taking a different IDE-support-tool and mapping the LSP onto it.

Contributing

Install esy if you don't have it (npm install -g esy@next)
Clone this repo
cd to the cloned dir
Run esy from the main project dir
Install the VS Code extension's dependencies cd editor-extensions/vscode && npm i && cd ../..
Open this project in VS Code

To test your changes in one of the example projects

Open the "Debug" pane in VS Code. Select a debug target. Press "Run"
It should start up a window titled [Extension development host]
Run npm install && npm run build in the project directory
To reload the server if something goes wrong: Ctrl/Cmd + Shift + P "Restart Reason Language Server"

You can then develop on the language server! When you change something, the server will automatically reload.

ryanartecona / reason-language-server