Preliminary work on typescript/tsserver

[sloat]

I've done some work throwing together a typescript module for completor. I didn't want to submit a pull request because I didn't write unit-tests for it, and I'm not sure if what I did is the best way (or even a good way) to do it.

TSServer requires a file to be "opened" before doing completions on it, i.e. send the open command to TSServer with the filename. I don't know if completor has facilities for this in place, and I don't know enough vimscript to try that route, so I threw it in the request function. That means the completions don't start until the second request.

TSServer also does much more than completions, but is painfully under-documented. I had enough after getting this working.

So feel free to use this as a starting point.

https://gist.github.com/sloat/6ef3a0cc582dc00208e8dde6cfc1d785

[prabirshrestha]

Typescript server provides more features besides just completion like goto-defintion, rename symbols and so on. With large project is makes sense to just have one typescript server running since they can take around 1gb ram.

Another option would be to use an existing typescript plugin and use that for completion like https://github.com/prabirshrestha/asyncomplete-tscompletejob.vim.
Or support https://github.com/Quramy/tsuquyomi
Or send PR to https://github.com/mhartington/nvim-typescript to support completor.vim sources. There is already one for deoplete and there is a open issue for nvim-completion-manager.

[maralla]

The typescript completion is implemented at https://github.com/maralla/completor-typescript.

[ghost]

Why don't implement it in completor @maralla ?

[maralla]

I don't use typescript. And I think it's better to keep completor lightweight.