Motoko and Candid Language Support for Zed

Motoko and Candid language support for Zed, allowing you to develop applications easily for Internet Computer.

• Tree-sitter for Motoko: christoph-dfinity/tree-sitter-motoko
• Tree-sitter for Candid: perforate-org/tree-sitter-candid
• Language Server for Motoko: A part of caffeinelabs/vscode-motoko

Prerequisites

For certain tasks:

• IC SDK
• Mops
• mo-dev

Configuring

Formatter

The Motoko formatter is based on Prettier, and you can configure it for each project using .prettierrc. For detailed configuration instructions, please refer to caffeinelabs/prettier-plugin-motoko.

Additionally, you can disable the formatter using Zed's settings:

{
  "lsp": {
    "motoko-language-server": {
      "initialization_options": {
        "formatter": "none" // "prettier" by default
      }
    }
  }
}

Development

To develop this extension, see the Developing Extensions section of the Zed docs.

To contribute to this extension:

1. Clone the repository
2. Make your changes
3. Test with Zed
4. Submit a pull request

License

This project is licensed under either of Apache License, Version 2.0 or MIT License at your option.