return {
  { -- Highlight, edit, and navigate code
    'nvim-treesitter/nvim-treesitter',
    lazy = false,
    branch = 'main',
    build = ':TSUpdate',
    dependencies = {
      'windwp/nvim-ts-autotag',
    },
    opts = {
      autotag = {
        enable = true,
      },
    },
    -- pin to specific commit since newest version dropped support for neovom 0.11
    commit = '7caec274fd19c12b55902a5b795100d21531391f',
    pin = true,
    -- main = 'nvim-treesitter.configs', -- Sets main module to use for opts
    -- [[ Configure Treesitter ]] See `:help nvim-treesitter`
    config = function(_, opts)
      require('nvim-treesitter').setup(opts)
      local ensureInstalled = {
        'bash',
        'c',
        'diff',
        'html',
        'lua',
        'luadoc',
        'markdown',
        'markdown_inline',
        'query',
        'vim',
        'vimdoc',
        'go',
        'rust',
        'elixir',
        'toml',
        'yaml',
        'typescript',
        'javascript',
        'tsx',
        'jsx',
      }
      local alreadyInstalled = require('nvim-treesitter').get_installed 'parsers'
      local parsersToInstall = vim
        .iter(ensureInstalled)
        :filter(function(parser)
          return not vim.tbl_contains(alreadyInstalled, parser)
        end)
        :totable()

      if #parsersToInstall > 0 then
        require('nvim-treesitter').install(parsersToInstall)
      end

      local parsersInstalled = require('nvim-treesitter').get_installed 'parsers'
      for _, parser in pairs(parsersInstalled) do
        local filetypes = vim.treesitter.language.get_filetypes(parser)
        vim.api.nvim_create_autocmd({ 'FileType' }, {
          group = vim.api.nvim_create_augroup('EnableTreesitterHighlighting', { clear = true }),
          pattern = filetypes,
          callback = function(event)
            local parser_installed = pcall(vim.treesitter.get_parser, event.buf, parser)
            if parser_installed then
              pcall(vim.treesitter.start, event.buf, parser)
            end
          end,
        })

        -- special case for handling tsx files
        if parser == 'typescript' then
          -- table.insert(filetypes, 'typescriptreact')
          vim.treesitter.language.register('typescript', { 'ts', 'typescript', 'typescriptreact' })
        end
      end
    end,
  },
  -- TODO: not sure if i need it, removing for now
  -- {
  --   'nvim-treesitter/nvim-treesitter-textobjects',
  --   opts = {},
  --   branch = 'main',
  --   config = function()
  --     require('nvim-treesitter-textobjects').setup {
  --       textobjects = {
  --         select = {
  --           enable = true,
  --           -- Automatically jump forward to textobj, similar to targets.vim
  --           lookahead = true,
  --           keymaps = {
  --             -- You can use the capture groups defined in textobjects.scm
  --             ['af'] = { query = '@function.outer', desc = 'Select outer function region' },
  --             ['if'] = { query = '@function.inner', desc = 'Select inner function region' },
  --             ['ac'] = { query = '@class.outer', desc = 'Select outer class region' },
  --             -- You can optionally set descriptions to the mappings (used in the desc parameter of
  --             -- nvim_buf_set_keymap) which plugins like which-key display
  --             ['ic'] = { query = '@class.inner', desc = 'Select inner class region' },
  --             -- You can also use captures from other query groups like `locals.scm`
  --             ['as'] = { query = '@local.scope', query_group = 'locals', desc = 'Select language scope' },
  --           },
  --         },
  --       },
  --     }
  --   end,
  -- },
}
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