settings.json

{
  // Point to the root PlaydateSDK so that auto-complete recommends paths prefixed with "CoreLibs/"
  "Lua.workspace.library": ["$PLAYDATE_SDK_PATH"],
  // Prevent the language server from indexing the Examples directories in the PlaydateSDK folder
  "Lua.workspace.ignoreDir": ["Examples"],
  "Lua.workspace.preloadFileSize": 1000,
  "Lua.runtime.special": {
    // Configure the language server to treat an import statement as a require statement
    "import": "require"
  },
  // The language server uses "." separators for require auto-completion, but the import statement only supports slashes
  "Lua.completion.requireSeparator": "/",
  "Lua.runtime.version": "Lua 5.4",
  // The language server can sort of parse these, but the formatter cannot
  // "Lua.runtime.nonstandardSymbol": ["+=", "-=", "*=", "/="],
  "Lua.diagnostics.disable": [
    "lowercase-global",
    "undefined-global",
    "undefined-field",
    "unknown-symbol"
  ],
  // Prevent the language server from linting the PlaydateSDK files
  "Lua.diagnostics.libraryFiles": "Disable"
}