Using with neovim

[bisraelsen]

Any pointers on how to use this with neovim? I am currently using deoplete as an auto-complete plugin, and I have LanguageClient that uses language server protocol (this is where I get javascript support from right now).

I am a little new with the above tools, and could use a little guidance. Also (neo)vim seems to be missing from your set of supported editors.

[reedkrantz]

I just got deoplete auto-completion working with neovim using TernJS. First I roughly followed this guide to setup neovim as a javascript IDE. The lines I added to ~/.config/nvim/init.vim were these in particular.

"Javascript Plugins
Plug 'carlitux/deoplete-ternjs'
Plug 'ternjs/tern_for_vim', { 'do': 'npm install && npm install -g tern' }

let g:tern_request_timeout = 1
let g:tern_request_timeout = 6000
let g:tern#command = ["tern"]
let g:tern#arguments = ["--persistent"]

It's worth noting I had to run sudo npm install -g tern manually to get this to work. Setting up tern globally is optional but as simple as creating a global config in ~/.tern-config that contains

{
  "plugins": {
    "node": {}
  }
}

at this point TernJS started giving me JavaScript auto-completion. To get auto-completion for Screeps I cloned this repo to create path/to/scripts/ScreepsAutocomplete/ and created a local tern config in path/to/scripts/.tern-project that contains

{
  "ecmaVersion": 6,
  "libs": [],
  "loadEagerly": [
    "ScreepsAutocomplete/**/*.js"
  ]
}

see the TurnJS Manual for more information. After that Auto-completion worked. I know I'm a little over 2 years late. Hopefully I have at least pointed anyone reading this in the right direction. I'm currently using Debian testing so if your on Windows or MacOS, I have zero idea if any of this even remotely helpful. But, I wish you luck.

Edit:
I didn't realize before, but the Atom editor also uses TurnJS so this is more supported than I thought. Adding these instructions to the README and making sure they work on other OS's would be helpful for neovim support.

[xunoaib]

I'll also chime in with a solution that worked for me (in coc.nvim). I installed type definitions for Screeps using npm (npm install --save @types/screeps), and the language server picked up on it immediately. Now I get Screeps-related auto-completion and documentation in vim. 🎉

[cprn]

npm install --save @types/screeps

This installs screeps/screeps and not Garethp/ScreepsAutocomplete. It worked for me but it's an entirely different project. Two questions come to mind:

1. Isn't screeps/screeps outdated? Garethp/ScreepsAutocomplete has newer commits.
2. If screeps/screeps isn't outdated and works fine then what's the point of Garethp/ScreepsAutocomplete?

I know nothing about npm and JS frameworks. My JS experience is with vanilla only. I use typescript-language-server because it came with my NeoVim install. I have no idea how it works and how to make this project work with it.

[Garethp]

Isn't screeps/screeps outdated? Garethp/ScreepsAutocomplete has newer commits.

I have no idea, but I haven't done active development on this project in a long long time. The newer commits that you see are contributions from other people, which I welcome and do merge in. I can't say if my project is out of date or not because it's been a long time since I've played screeps

If screeps/screeps isn't outdated and works fine then what's the point of Garethp/ScreepsAutocomplete?

This project predates screeps/screeps by about two years. In fact, I basically stopped playing before that one even came out. If it were out at the time that I was playing, I probably would have just contributed to them instead

[cprn]

OK, thank you for clarifying that. Upon further investigation it seems both projects are up to date, they just install differently.