Why not use LSP for refactoring?

[fletchgqc]

I showed RefakTS to a colleague and he found it really interesting. He pointed out that one could also rely on an IDE’s refactoring features via the Language Server Protocol (LSP).

Using LSP as a foundation could:
• Support more programming languages.
• Reuse existing refactoring capabilities in many IDEs.
• Combine well with MCP for additional features.

I don't really know anything about LSP. Were you also not aware of it, or was there another reason for not using LSP here?

[devill]

RefakTS uses LSP and ts-morph under the hood. It's just that ts-morph is quite limited and it's already built on LSP which is basically useful for finding usages. At least based on what I found out about it, but maybe I just didn't find the right sources. In case we find a documentation that can do stuff like move method, extract interface or even just a dumb extract method, I'd love to not have a separate project and directly use LSP :)