Citry language server

citry-lsp brings Citry template diagnostics, completion, hover, navigation, symbols, references, and formatting to editors that support the Language Server Protocol.

It understands templates written inside Python, standalone citry-html documents, and template files owned by registered components. It can work without loading an app, while a project-aware installation also understands your registered components and their Python declarations.

Install in your project

Install the server in the same Python environment as the Citry project:

python -m pip install citry-lsp

The server requires Citry 0.4.5 or newer and Python 3.10 through 3.14. It checks catalog and protocol schemas for compatibility. It installs the compatible Citry runtime, pygls, and the supported ty analyzer automatically.

Your editor should launch this command over stdio:

citry-lsp

For an isolated syntax-only process, use:

uvx --from citry-lsp citry-lsp

The isolated form cannot import the project app, so it deliberately omits registry-backed component knowledge.

Choose how much project knowledge to load

Without a project target, the server reports syntax-only mode. Parser diagnostics, Citry structural completion, lexical c-for and c-fill bindings, Citry event/State binding keys and modifiers, Alpine directive completion and hover, first-party hover help, and structural formatting remain available. The server does not guess which user components exist.

For component-aware features, the editor supplies a module:attribute target through its citry.app setting:

{
  "citry.app": "my_project.web:app"
}

The target may be a configured Citry instance or a ComponentLibrary:

{
  "citry.app": "citry_ui:__citry_library__"
}

The server imports that target in a bounded worker process. Import errors, invalid targets, crashes, and timeouts produce one visible status message and fall back to syntax-only behavior without corrupting the editor connection.

Clients may also provide an optional envFile initialization option. Relative paths resolve from the workspace:

{
  "protocolVersion": 1,
  "app": "my_project.web:app",
  "envFile": ".env"
}

File values override the environment inherited by the server and apply only to the isolated app-discovery worker. The stdio server and its type analyzer remain unchanged. Each registry reload rereads the file; missing or malformed configured files produce a syntax-only status instead of importing the app with an unintended environment. Citry's environment adapter reports the selected path but never serializes or logs its parsed values.

Registry mode adds:

• component, input, slot, and typed slot-data completion and hover;
• navigation to component classes, schema fields, inferred data keys, and template bindings;
• TemplateData, JsData, and CssData checks across Python, templates, Alpine expressions, JavaScript, and CSS;
• Events handler and $c-props checks;
• Fluent message, key, argument, formatter, and translation navigation;
• project lint settings and component-aware diagnostics.

Each workspace folder should run its own server process so it can use that folder's Python interpreter and registry target.

Type-aware template expressions

The server uses the ty executable installed in the selected project environment. Proven template roots receive Python member and call completion, hover, definitions, signature help, narrowing, and source-mapped diagnostics.

If ty is missing, has the wrong version, exits, or times out, the server shows one degradation notice and keeps parser diagnostics and Citry-owned root features active.

Formatting

Protocol v1 formats citry-html documents and parser-proven templates inside Python through Citry's shared structural formatter. Registry-proven ordinary HTML template files can be formatted through the explicit Citry request without registering Citry as the formatter for every HTML document.

Clients may also negotiate citry/formatComponentAssets and citry/formatEmbedded for one atomic template, JavaScript, and CSS formatting operation. Stale or malformed client responses produce no edit.

Compatibility

The server advertises language-server version 0.1.4, component catalog v1, and client protocol v1. It accepts Citry 0.4.5 and newer without a version upper bound, and checks the catalog and client protocol contracts before returning registry-backed results.

The console command accepts pygls development transports:

citry-lsp --tcp --host 127.0.0.1 --port 2087

Use stdio for normal editor integration.

For editor setup and troubleshooting, see the Citry IDE guide. Report problems through the Citry issue tracker.