Django Template Language Server (LSP)

The Django Template Language Server (LSP) enhances your Django development experience with powerful features for navigating and editing template files. This LSP supports:

Completions

• Custom Tags and Filters: Autocomplete for your custom template tags and filters.
• Template: Suggestions for extends and includes statements.
• Load Tag: Autocomplete for {% load %} tags.
• Static Files: Path suggestions for {% static %} tags.
• URLs: Autocomplete for {% url %} tags.

Go to Definitions

• Template: Jump directly to the templates used in extends and includes.
• URL Tag: Navigate to the views referenced in {% url %} tags.
• Tags and Filters: Quickly access the definitions of custom tags and filters.
• Context Variables: Partial support for jumping to context definitions.

Hover Documentation

• URLs: Inline documentation for {% url %} tags.
• Tags and Filters: Detailed descriptions for template tags and filters.

Support (tested)

• Python: 3.10, 3.11, 3.12
• Django: 3.2, 4.2, 5.0

Installation

To install the package globally and isolate it from other Python environments, use pipx:

pipx install django-template-lsp

Once installed, the Django template LSP server is accessible via the following commands:

• djlsp
• django-template-lsp

Options

• docker_compose_file (string) default: "docker-compose.yml"
• docker_compose_service (string) default: "django"
• django_settings_module (string) default (auto detected when empty): ""

Data Collection Method

The Django Template Language Server collects project data by executing a script in the following order:

1. Virtual Environment:

   • Checks for a virtual environment in the root directory within one of these folders: env, .env, venv, or .venv.
   • If found, runs the django-collector.py script using the virtual environment's Python interpreter.

2. Docker Compose:

   • If a Docker Compose file (docker-compose.yml by default) is present and includes the specified service (django by default), the script is executed within that Docker service.

3. Global Python:

   • If neither a virtual environment nor Docker Compose is detected, the script runs using the global python3 installation on the system.

Note: The data collection process will fail if there are Python syntax errors or missing imports in your project.

Type hints

Due to the highly dynamic nature of Python and Django, it can be challenging to identify the available context data within templates. To address this, basic type hint support is provided directly in the template files:

{# type blog: blogs.models.Blog #}

Editors

Helix

In your global or project languages.toml add the following

[language-server.djlsp]
command = "djlsp"

[[language]]
name = "html"
language-servers = [ "vscode-html-language-server", "djlsp" ]

Project settings .helix/languages.toml:

[language-server.djlsp.config]
django_settings_modules="<your.settings.module>"

Neovim

In your lspconfig add the following

require'lspconfig'.djlsp.setup{
    cmd = { "<path-to-djlsp>" },
    init_options = {
        djlsp = {
            django_settings_module = "<your.settings.module>"
            docker_compose_file = "docker-compose.yml",
            docker_compose_service = "django"
        }
    }
}

VSCode

To use the Django template LSP with VSCode read the following readme

Development

For local development, using Helix is the easiest approach.
The configuration for using the source Django template language server, with logging enabled, is already set up.

To start the Helix editor with the environment activated and the correct workspace loaded, run:

make helix