Language Server Protocol: Transforming Text Editors Into Code Editors

The language server provides language-specific features to communicate with development tools over a particular protocol. This protocol establishes the inter-process communication. The language server protocol (LSP) standardizes the protocol that enables communication between the servers and development.

The LSP architecture supports VS Code to interact with several language servers. Each of these servers can be implemented in any language and offers tons of features in compliance with the JSON-based protocol.

The language server protocol editor is an open-source JSON-RPC-based editor. It bridges the gap and establishes a secure connection between servers and integrated development environments.

LSP in VS Code is a common protocol which is used to provide language service features to different code editors in the form of JSON-RPC v2.0.

The language server protocol client offers many language-specific features, such as code navigation, code completion, etc. After enabling the LSP client on the plugin page, you can have a new page with the name ‘LSP client’ on your configuration dialog.

LSP in IDE stands for the protocol that is used between an IDE or editor and the language server which provides language features like find all references, autocomplete, go to definition, and others.