Vim for JavaScript/React/Angular development (Linux and MAC Setup)

1. Install vim-plug as a plugin manager

vim-plug advantages:

• installs each plugin in its own directory
• includes commands for plugin installation/update/removal: See the list of commands here
• parallel installation/update of plugins
• faster than Vundle

vim-plug installation:

• Run this command in terminal

curl -fLo ~/.vim/autoload/plug.vim --create-dirs \
    https://raw.githubusercontent.com/junegunn/vim-plug/master/plug.vim

• Create the .vimrc file in your local dir, if there's none yet

touch ~/.vimrc

• Open the .vimrc file and paste:

" Specify a directory for plugins
" - For Neovim: ~/.local/share/nvim/plugged
" - Avoid using standard Vim directory names like 'plugin'
call plug#begin('~/.vim/plugged')

" List here the plugins with Plug commands
" Shorthand notations can be used, as well as any valid GIT URLs
" Make sure you use single quotes
" See all possible ways to list a plugin: https://github.com/junegunn/vim-plug
" Ex: Plug 'https://github.com/username/reponame.git'

" Initialize the plugin system
call plug#end()

2. Install typescript

npm install -g typescript

3. Install typescript-vim plugin to enable typescript syntax support

• Open ~/.vim/plugins.vim file
• Add Plug 'https://github.com/leafgarland/typescript-vim' before call plug#end()
• Also add the following lines after call plug#end() to enable the plugin to display compilation errors in the QuickFix window:

let g:typescript_compiler_binary = 'tsc'
let g:typescript_compiler_options = ''
autocmd QuickFixCmdPost [^l]* nested cwindow
autocmd QuickFixCmdPost    l* nested lwindow

• Open vim and type :PlugInstall
• Open a .ts file with vim: vim someFile.ts
• Run :make while editing a TypeScript file to execute the tsc compiler and display errors in the QuickFix window:

5. Install vim-javascript plugin to enable javascript syntax highlighting

• Open ~/.vim/plugins.vim file
• Add Plug https://github.com/pangloss/vim-javascript
• Open vim and type :PlugInstall