How to get Bicep intellisense in (DOOM) Emacs

DOOM Emacs Bicep

I use the bicep-mode for Bicep syntax and intellisense in DOOM Emacs.

First install the Bicep Language Server to our system:

(cd $(mktemp -d) \
    && curl -fLO https://github.com/Azure/bicep/releases/latest/download/bicep-langserver.zip \
    && sudo rm -rf /usr/local/bin/bicep-langserver \
    && sudo unzip -d /usr/local/bin/bicep-langserver bicep-langserver.zip)

This requires dotnet to be installed. You can verify that it works by running:

exec dotnet /usr/local/bin/bicep-langserver/Bicep.LangServer.dll

If it doesn’t throw any error you should be good to continue. If not you may have to install the dotnet runtime.

Clone the repository into your doom config:

cd ~/.doom.d
git clone git@github.com:christiaan-janssen/bicep-mode.git

Configure ~/.doom.d/config.el to load the package and start it automatically when we open bicep files:

;; Load package bicep-mode.
(use-package! "bicep-mode"
  :load-path "~/.doom.d/bicep")

;; Start LSP automatically when bicep files are opened.
(add-hook 'bicep-mode-hook #'lsp)

Enable lsp in emacs by enabling it in ~/.doom.d/init.el and reload Emacs <M-x doom/reload>.

You should now have proper intellisense when you work with Bicep files.