# Install vue-language-server with Homebrew, Nix, pacman

Vue.js language server. Version 3.3.6 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-01.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:vue-language-server
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install vue-language-server
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#vue-language-server
```

  Evidence: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/vu/vue-language-server/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

- pacman (92%):

```sh
sudo pacman -S vue-language-server
```

  Evidence: Arch Linux sync databases: vue-language-server from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:vue-language-server
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Package manager page:** <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/vue-language-server>
- **Version:** 3.3.6
- **Source summary:** Vue.js language server
- **Homepage:** <https://deepwiki.com/vuejs/language-tools>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/vuejs/language-tools>
- **Upstream docs:** <https://github.com/vuejs/language-tools/tree/master/packages/language-server>
- **License:** MIT
- **Source archive:** <https://registry.npmjs.org/@vue/language-server/-/language-server-3.3.6.tgz>
- **Last updated:** 2026-07-01T17:34:08Z
- **Generated:** 2026-07-08T07:18:31+00:00

## Executables

- vue-language-server (cli)
- vue-language-server (alias)

## Dependencies

- node

## Install behavior

- Post-install hook: not defined
- Bottle: available on all

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-07-08
- Package-manager version: 3.3.6
- Package-manager updated: 2026-07-01
- Local data: ok
- Upstream repository: https://deepwiki.com/vuejs/language-tools
- info: Release/tag comparison is only available for GitHub repositories.
## Project history and usage

Vue Language Server is the LSP-facing part of Vue Language Tools, the official Vue language-tooling repository descended from Volar. It provides editor features for Vue single-file components: template-aware TypeScript inference, diagnostics, completion, navigation, refactoring, formatting, and integration with Vue-specific compiler options.

### Project history

The `vuejs/language-tools` repository was created on 2020-05-01 and became the home for Volar-derived Vue tooling. In 2023, the Vue team announced `Volar: a New Beginning`: the Volar core was extracted into Volar.js, while the old Volar extension and `vue-tsc` codebase moved to `vuejs/language-tools` and became the Vue-specific layer depending on Volar.js.

### Adoption history

The repository presents Vue Language Tools as the official high-performance Vue toolset based on Volar.js. Its README lists end-user packages such as the `Vue (Official)` VS Code extension and `vue-tsc`, and editor-integration packages such as `@vue/language-server`, `@vue/language-service`, and `@vue/typescript-plugin`.

The Visual Studio Marketplace listing for `Vue (Official)` reports millions of installs and describes a full Vue SFC editing experience. Outside VS Code, the language server is integrated by community editor clients for Neovim, coc.nvim, Vim, Sublime, Emacs, Nova, Lapce, Monaco, WebStorm, and Eclipse Wild Web Developer.

### How it is used

Users install the VS Code extension for the default first-party experience, run `vue-tsc --noEmit` for command-line type checking, or configure an LSP client to launch `vue-language-server`. Vue-specific compiler settings live under `vueCompilerOptions` in `tsconfig.json`, and version 3 non-VS Code setups require the editor client to forward `tsserver/request` and `tsserver/response` messages between the Vue and TypeScript language servers.

### Why package nerds care

This package matters because Vue SFC tooling sits at the boundary between framework syntax and TypeScript tooling. Package users care about matching the language server, TypeScript version, `vue-tsc`, editor client, and plugins, so the Homebrew/npm package is not just a binary: it is one moving part in a multi-editor Vue type-checking stack.

### Timeline

- 2020-05-01: `vuejs/language-tools` repository created.
- 2023-05-08: npm metadata records creation of `@vue/language-server`.
- 2023: Vue blog announces the Volar.js extraction and movement of old Volar extension and `vue-tsc` code into `vuejs/language-tools`.
- 2025-06-29: Vue language-tools maintainers publish version 3 migration guidance for non-VS Code editors.
- 2026-06-30: npm metadata records `@vue/language-server` version 3.3.6 publication.

### Related projects

- Volar.js is the extracted core on which Vue Language Tools depends.
- `vue-tsc`, `@vue/language-service`, `@vue/typescript-plugin`, vtsls, and TypeScript language servers are closely related in editor and command-line workflows.

### Sources

- <https://blog.vuejs.org/posts/volar-a-new-beginning - Vue team's explanation of the Volar.js extraction and repository transition.>
- <https://github.com/vuejs/language-tools - official README, package list, usage, and community integrations.>
- <https://github.com/vuejs/language-tools/discussions/5456 - version 3 migration guidance for non-VS Code editors.>
- <https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Vue.volar - official Vue VS Code extension listing and feature/adoption data.>
- <https://registry.npmjs.org/@vue/language-server - npm package metadata and publication dates.>


## Security Notes

No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for vue-language-server. Nucleus package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL.



## Configuration and credential file locations

These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.


## Configuration files

- Unix: tsconfig.json
## Source Database Details

- **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API
- **Tap:** homebrew/core
- **Full Name:** vue-language-server
- **Version Scheme:** 0
- **Revision:** 0
- **Bottle Stable Root URL:** <https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core>
- **Deprecated:** no
- **Disabled:** no
- **Keg Only:** no
- **URL Keys:** stable

## Other Package-Manager Records

- Nix - vue-language-server: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/vu/vue-language-server/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- pacman - vue-language-server - 3.3.4-1: normalized package name match | Arch Linux sync databases: vue-language-server from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz | Language server for Vue | https://github.com/vuejs/language-tools/tree/master/packages/language-server


## Related links

- [Terminal utility packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/terminal-utilities/) - Matched terminal and command-line workflow metadata.
- [Text processing packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/text-processing-tools/) - Matched text, document, or structured-data processing metadata.
- [Developer build packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/developer-build-tools/) - Matched build, compiler, generator, or developer workflow metadata.
- [Language runtime packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/language-runtime-packages/) - Matched language runtime, compiler, or interpreter metadata.
- [node](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/node/) - Runtime dependency declared by Homebrew.
- [bash-language-server](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/bash-language-server/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, language-server, lsp, typescript.
- [crystalline](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/crystalline/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, editor-tooling, language-server, lsp.
- [kotlin-language-server](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/kotlin-language-server/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, editor-tooling, language-server, lsp.
- [millet](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/millet/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, editor-tooling, language-server, lsp.
- [phpantom-lsp](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/phpantom-lsp/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, editor-tooling, language-server, lsp.
- [typescript-language-server](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/typescript-language-server/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, language-server, lsp, typescript.
- [vtsls](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/vtsls/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, language-server, lsp, typescript.
- [ansible-language-server](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/ansible-language-server/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, language-server, lsp.

## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/vue-language-server.yml](https://github.com/automic-vault/db/blob/main/combined/vue-language-server.yml)


## Sources

- Nucleus package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- package-page enrichment
- curated configuration and credential file locations
- curated package history
- package version freshness
- av.db category and tag curation
- package relationship graph
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph
