lsp-mode uses lsp-docker to run language servers using in containers

Table of Contents

• Preconfigured language servers
• Usage
  • emacslsp/lsp-docker-langservers
    • Configuration
    • How it works
  • emacslsp/lsp-docker-full
    • Flags
      • Emacs
      • Spacemacs
• Docker over TRAMP (TBD)
• See also
• Maintainers

Preconfigured language servers

emacslsp/lsp-docker-langservers has the following content:

• Language servers:

  Language	Language Server
  Bash	bash-language-server
  C++	ccls
  CSS/LessCSS/SASS/SCSS	css
  Dockerfile	dockerfile-language-server-nodejs
  Go	gopls
  HTML	html
  JavaScript/TypeScript	typescript-language-server
  Python	pyls

Usage

There are 2 supported containers:

• emacslsp/lsp-docker-langservers
• emacslsp/lsp-docker-full

emacslsp/lsp-docker-langservers

This container is used by lsp-docker to run Language Servers for lsp-mode over local sources. You must pull the container before lsp-docker can use it

Configuration

• Clone the repo

  git clone https://github.com/emacs-lsp/lsp-docker
      

• Pull the container

  docker pull emacslsp/lsp-docker-langservers
      

• Add repo to load path and register the docker clients in your ~/.emacs file

  ;; Uncomment the next line if you are using this from source
  ;; (add-to-list 'load-path "<path-to-lsp-docker-dir>")
  (require 'lsp-docker)
  
  (defvar lsp-docker-client-packages
      '(lsp-css lsp-clients lsp-bash lsp-go lsp-pyls lsp-html lsp-typescript
        lsp-terraform lsp-cpp))
  
  (defvar lsp-docker-client-configs
     (list
     (list :server-id 'bash-ls :docker-server-id 'bashls-docker :server-command "bash-language-server start")
     (list :server-id 'clangd :docker-server-id 'clangd-docker :server-command "ccls")
     (list :server-id 'css-ls :docker-server-id 'cssls-docker :server-command "css-languageserver --stdio")
     (list :server-id 'dockerfile-ls :docker-server-id 'dockerfilels-docker :server-command "docker-langserver --stdio")
     (list :server-id 'gopls :docker-server-id 'gopls-docker :server-command "gopls")
     (list :server-id 'html-ls :docker-server-id 'htmls-docker :server-command "html-languageserver --stdio")
     (list :server-id 'pyls :docker-server-id 'pyls-docker :server-command "pyls")
     (list :server-id 'ts-ls :docker-server-id 'tsls-docker :server-command "typescript-language-server --stdio")))
  
  (require 'lsp-docker)
  (lsp-docker-init-clients
    :path-mappings '(("path-to-projects-you-want-to-use" . "/projects"))
    :client-packages lsp-docker-client-packages
    :client-configs lsp-docker-client-configs)
      

How it works

lsp-mode starts the image passed as :docker-image-id and mounts :path-mappings in the container. Then when the process is started lsp-mode translates the local paths to docker path and vice versa using the :path-mappings specified when calling lsp-docker-init-default-clients. You may use lsp-enabled-clients and lsp-disabled-clients to control what language server will be used to run for a particular project(refer to lsp-mode FAQ on how to configure .dir-locals).

emacslsp/lsp-docker-full

The container emacslsp/lsp-docker-full contains:

• The above language servers
• Emacs28 compiled with native JSON support for better performance.

Flags

Flag	Purpose	Default
EMACS_D_VOLUME	Emacs folder to use for /root/.emacs	Emacs: $(pwd)/emacs.d Spacemacs: $(pwd)/spacemacs
PROJECTS_VOLUME	Directory to mount at /Projects	$(pwd)/demo-projects/
TZ	Timezone to user in container	Europe/Minsk
DOCKER_FLAGS	Any additional docker flags	N/A

Emacs

• Clone lsp-docker.

  git clone https://github.com/emacs-lsp/lsp-docker
  cd lsp-docker
      

• Run

  bash start-emacs.sh
      

Spacemacs

• Clone lsp-docker.

  git clone https://github.com/emacs-lsp/lsp-docker
  cd lsp-docker
      

• Clone spacemacs repo

  # Clone spacemacs develop
  git clone -b develop https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs spacemacs
      

• Run

  EMACS_D_VOLUME=/path/to/spacemacs bash start-spacemacs.sh
      

Docker over TRAMP (TBD)

Docker running the language servers and hosting the sources, Emacs running on the desktop machine and connecting to docker instance over TRAMP.

See also

• docker - package for managing docker images/containers.

Maintainers

• yyoncho
• rnikoopour