This project is in the alpha stage of development.
This project aims to be a prototype of Solidity Language Server using Microsoft's Language Server Protocol (LSP). It includes a minimal client for demonstration.
Initialy the work is being done on the client side using a common npm library which will be moved to the server side later.
If you are looking for something for ready day-to-day use, I recommend mention the solidity plugin written by Juan Blanco.
Though the solidity-language-server is built to work with many IDEs and editors, we currently use VSCode to test the solidity-language-server.
To run with VSCode, you'll need a recent VSCode version installed.
Next, you'll need to run the VSCode extension (for this step, you'll need a recent node installed):
git clone https://github.com/codechain-io/solidity-language-server.git
cd solidity-language-server
npm install
code .
VSCode will open into the solidity-language-server project. From here, click the Debug button on the left-hand side (a bug with a line through it). Next, click the green triangle at the top. This will launch a new instance of VSCode with the solidity-language-server plugin enabled.
There have been several complete rewrites of this code. The project name comes from the now defunct kodebox project. However very little of that code is in current use. Instead, I went back to the Microsoft tutorial on this and picked up the simple code LSP Example from https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-extension-samples/tree/master/lsp-sample. But right now, since everything is client-side, there isn't much code from that there either. I just have the client-server architecture which I can plug into at a later time.
Finally, at times I've been guided by Juan Blanco's plugin mentioned above.
Always feel free to help out!