I'm not entirely sure this step is absolutely necessary, but let's dot it all the same.
VISUAL STUDIO 2015 INTELLISENSE NOT WORKING JAVASCRIPT INSTALL
Install VS TypeScript toolsįirst of all you'll need to install the VS TypeScript tools. Loading the AngularJS TypeScript definition file in VS2015 And if you are working on big legacy projects, you can benefit from these type definitions without any changes to your code base. True, this IntelliSense will only be for the definition files you include, but at the end of the day, that is still a HUGE win. Should you be able to load these files into Visual Studio, you would get the same type of IntelliSense that you are used to with C#. And when I say 'almost every', I mean almost every! You'll find ts files for Knockout, Angular, jQuery, Moment, Jasmine, PNotify and many, many more. Which basically means that they host a 'TypeScript definition file' -or a 'd.ts file'- for almost every commonly used JavaScript library. The guys over at DefinitelyType created a repository for high quality TypeScript type definitions. Using DefinitelyTyped with plain JavaScript But there is a middle ground, that is very simple to take, and that many developers don't know about. Or you could just be working on a 'legacy' project that was written in plain old JavaScript and migrating to TypeScript just isn't in the budget or there isn't enough know-how in the team. You could switch to TypeScript, which -as a typed superset of JavaScript that compiles to plain JavaScript- allows for almost the same type of tooling experience you are used to when using Visual Studio with C#.īut, there ain't no such thing as a free meal. And I how do I miss IntelliSense support, like you get with C# or Java.īut there are a couple of things you can do to minimize that pain. But I do have to admit there a couple of 'pains', especially when making application wide changes on huge projects. I love everything about being a front-end JavaScript developer the flexibility of a dynamic language, the JavaScript syntax, the immediate result, etc.