avalonia.nvim

Avalonia preview integration for Neovim.

This plugin is experimental so expect bugs. It also expects a fairly standing file structure with a .sln file in the root.

Usage

1. Open .axaml file
2. Call require("avalonia").open_preview()
3. Edit .axaml
4. Preview will update on saving the buffer or opening a new .axaml

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Lazy.nvim

  {
    "Johanw123/avalonia.nvim",
  }

Default Settings

  require("avalonia.nvim").setup {
    openUrlCommand = nil,  -- start/open/xdg-open
    forced_browser = nil,    -- firefox/chrome/msedge etc
    displayMethod = "html", -- html/kitty(not implemented yet)
    tcp_port = 0, -- port for connecting to avalonia preview rendering process, leave as 0 to let OS decide
    debug = false,
}

Future plans

• kitty grahpics protocol support

Extra

For avalonia completion on .axaml im using the LSP from vscode-avalonia extension.

  -- windows
  local avalonia_lsp_bin = "%USERPROFILE%\\.vscode\\extensions\\avaloniateam.vscode-avalonia-0.0.25\\avaloniaServer\\AvaloniaLanguageServer.dll"
  -- linux
  local avalonia_lsp_bin = "~/.vscode/extensions/avaloniateam.vscode-avalonia-0.0.25/avaloniaServer/AvaloniaLanguageServer.dll"

  vim.api.nvim_create_autocmd({"BufNewFile", "BufRead"},{ pattern = {"*.axaml"}, callback =
    function()
      vim.cmd.setfiletype("xml")
      vim.lsp.start({
        name = "Avalonia LSP",
        cmd = { "dotnet", avalonia_lsp_bin },
        root_dir = vim.fn.getcwd(),
      })
    end})

References

• https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia
• https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia/wiki/XAML-previewer-protocol
• https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=AvaloniaTeam.vscode-avalonia
• https://github.com/kuiperzone/AvantGarde