Roblox LSP can receive information from Roblox Studio using a plugin, if you install it, a list of every descendant in your game will be send to Roblox LSP every time you create, remove, move or rename an Instance. path.to.testĪnother thing to notice is that the functions FindFirstChild and WaitForChild, will return you the child of the Instance if it finds it, otherwise, they will return you a value of type Instance.

You can also add an special annotation on top of variables to get intellisense of a module that Roblox LSP didn’t found. project.json files it finds, convert them into Instance Trees, and then combine the Instance Trees into one. project.json files, then you can set Roblox LSP > Workspace: Rojo Project File to blank, this will make Roblox LSP read all the. project.json file you are working with in Workspace: Rojo Project File, by default it is “default”.īut if you want to work on several projects at the same time that are in the same workspace, and you have several. You also have to specify the name of the. If you have multiple projects in your workspace, you can set Roblox LSP > Workspace: Load Mode to Rojo Project, and Roblox LSP will only load the scripts that can be found in your Rojo Project, unless you open them manually. model.json files, and recognizes init files too. You will feel that you are programming in Roblox Studio (but better), it has an environment exactly same as Roblox, you have the same globals, same functions, same everything!Īnd you can also expect certain behaviors, such as that global variables can only be used in the script in which you define them, and that _G and shared are shared across all scripts. I am going to show you its features and explain you how to use it, so this topic can become a little long. Now you can add to that list: A Better IntelliSense! Use your favorite code editor, and this comes with more advantages like Snippets, Multiple Editors, Multiple Cursors, Code Preview, and a huge amount of Plugins that give you even more!.Use Git for version control (Especially useful when working with teams).

When you are a Roblox programmer, you may not be satisfied with Roblox Studio and the Script Editor it has for various reasons, so you decide to use an external editor (like Visual Studio Code) to improve your workflow. Roblox LSP provides a lot of features, like advanced IntelliSense, Signature Help, Goto Definition, Symbols, Diagnostics, etc, and many focused on programming in Roblox and Luau.

This project was made with Roblox developers in mind. Roblox LSP is Lua Language Server for Roblox forked from sumneko’s Lua language server.Įverything you will see in this topic and more was made by me, but this would not be possible without the language server created by sumneko.

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