How to setup tree-sitter highlighters and parsers for Neovim

If you're reading this, you're probably trying to figure out how to move on after the travesty that was Apr 3, 2026 for nvim-treesitter. This post will be a walk through on how to setup syntax highlighting for tree-sitter. Prerequisites: You will need the tree-sitter cli Setting up Queries Queries are the languages that contain the .scm files required to tell tree-sitter how to highlight code. The easiest way to install this is to make the queries directory in you nvim path, e.g. ~/.config/nvim/