return {
    "nvim-treesitter/nvim-treesitter",
    event = { "InsertEnter" },
    build = ":TSUpdate",
    dependencies = {
        "nvim-treesitter/nvim-treesitter-textobjects",
        "windwp/nvim-ts-autotag",
    },
    config = function()
        -- import nvim-treesitter plugin
        local treesitter = require("nvim-treesitter.configs")

        -- configure treesitter
        treesitter.setup({ -- enable syntax highlighting
            auto_install = true,

            highlight = {
                enable = true,
            },
            -- enable indentation
            indent = { enable = true },
            -- enable autotagging (w/ nvim-ts-autotag plugin)
            autotag = {
                enable = true,
            },
            -- ensure these language parsers are installed
            ensure_installed = {
                "json",
                "javascript",
                "yaml",
                "html",
                "markdown",
                "markdown_inline",
                "bash",
                "lua",
                "vim",
                "dockerfile",
                "gitignore",
                "query",
                "latex",
                "python",
                "c",
                "cpp",
                "css",
                "commonlisp",
                "fennel",
                "haskell",
                "ini",
                "jq",
                "perl",
                "scss",
                "verilog",
                "awk"
            },
            incremental_selection = {
                enable = true,
                keymaps = {
                    init_selection = "<C-space>",
                    node_incremental = "<C-space>",
                    scope_incremental = false,
                    node_decremental = "<bs>",
                },
            },
            -- enable nvim-ts-context-commentstring plugin for commenting tsx and jsx
            context_commentstring = {
                enable = true,
                enable_autocmd = false,
            },
        })
        vim.api.nvim_set_keymap('n', '<space>jd', ':TSD<CR>', { noremap = true, silent = true })
    end,
}