| # analysis_server | |
| A long-running process that provides analysis results to other tools. | |
| The analysis server is designed to provide on-going analysis of one or more code | |
| bases as those code bases are changing. | |
| ## Using the server | |
| The analysis server is not intended to be used stand-alone, and therefore does | |
| not have a human-friendly user interface. | |
| Clients (typically tools, such as an editor) are expected to run the analysis | |
| server in a separate process and communicate with it using a JSON protocol. The | |
| original protocol is specified in the file [`analysis_server/doc/api.html`][api] | |
| and [Language Server Protocol][lsp_spec] support is documented in | |
| [`tool/lsp_spec/README.md`](tool/lsp_spec/README.md). | |
| ## Features and bugs | |
| Please file feature requests and bugs at the [issue tracker][tracker]. | |
| [tracker]: https://github.com/dart-lang/sdk/issues | |
| [api]: https://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://github.com/dart-lang/sdk/blob/main/pkg/analysis_server/doc/api.html | |
| [lsp_spec]: https://microsoft.github.io/language-server-protocol/ |