LSP Javascript rename folder

[tien]

Currently you can rename individual Javascript file with lsp-javascript-rename-file and have imports automatically updated. The same can't be done for folder. Would be nice to have that option for working with large projects.

[yyoncho]

Is this supported by the server?

[tien]

I'm not too sure... But VSCode can do it. And technically if you can do it one file we can do it recursively for every JS files under a directory?

[yyoncho]

VScode is using tsserver, not typescript-language-server. Technically, I can implement the whole JS support in elisp but the overall idea is to have a thin client and the server to provide functionality like this.

[tien]

Oh I didn't even know that VSCode use tsserver which isn't a LSP? Seeing that LSP was developed for/by VSCode, learning something new everyday :)

But yeah, would make sense to have this functionality provided by the server I guess.

This would be huge though, pretty much the only major missing functionality compared to VSCode. Can pretty much switch my workflow to emacs entirely if this is available.

[yyoncho]

microsoft/TypeScript#39459

[tien]

@yyoncho I found this on the typescript-language-server repo, and they argue that this should be done by the client instead of the server.

[yyoncho]

that can be implemented in lsp-mode

[tien]

Awesome, wonder if this could be implemented as a language agnostic function lsp-rename-folder or something? So that integration with other tools is possible. I.e renaming folder with tree-macs