I recently picked up a new project that uses React. Out of the box, my configuration doesn’t seem to be doing very well – indentation is erratic (sometimes thrown off by JSX), no lsp-rename, and generally things are slow.

Are there any generally recommended approaches for React development with Emacs? Language server, minor modes, tree-sitter, etc? There seem to be a lot of options and modes available.

The codebase is currently JavaScript and JSX, but I’m considering Typescript and TSX down the line. Should I just default to the TypeScript tooling?

  • HorrihBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    web-mode is well suited for most web dev.

    I used it extensively for vue.js (html/css/typescript in the same file) and it worked well. Pretty sure it should be fine for typescript + jsx

    As for the language server, it seems that typescript-language-server is the way to go (see)

    Give it a try, i’m pretty sure that those two things will cover 90% of your needs