Visual Studio Code has great editing support for TypeScript. This article goes into depth on the editing and programming language features that come built-in to VS Code. If you'd like to know more about general editing features in VS Code, such as keyboard shortcuts, multi-cursors, search, and find and replace, you can read Basic Editing.
IntelliSenseIntelliSense shows you intelligent code completion, hover information, and signature help so that you can write code more quickly and correctly.
VS Code provides IntelliSense for individual TypeScript files as well as TypeScript tsconfig.json projects.
Hover over a TypeScript symbol to quickly see its type information and relevant documentation:
You can also show the hover information at the current cursor position with the ⌘K ⌘I (Windows, Linux Ctrl+K Ctrl+I) keyboard shortcut.
Signature helpAs you write a TypeScript function call, VS Code shows information about the function signature and highlights the parameter that you are currently completing:
Signature help is shown automatically when you type a ( or , within a function call. Use ⇧⌘Space (Windows, Linux Ctrl+Shift+Space) to manually trigger signature help.
VS Code includes basic TypeScript snippets that are suggested as you type;
You can install extensions to get additional snippets or define your own snippets for TypeScript. See User Defined Snippets for more information.
TipYou can disable snippets by setting editor.snippetSuggestions to "none" in your settings file. If you'd like to see snippets, you can specify the order relative to suggestions; at the top ("top"), at the bottom ("bottom"), or inlined ordered alphabetically ("inline"). The default is "inline".
Inlay hints add additional inline information to source code to help you understand what the code does.
Parameter name inlay hints show the names of parameters in function calls:
This can help you understand the meaning of each argument at a glance, which is especially helpful for functions that take Boolean flags or have parameters that are easy to mix up.
To enable parameter name hints, set typescript.inlayHints.parameterNames.enabled. There are three possible values:
none — Disable parameter inlay hints.literals — Only show inlay hints for literals (string, number, Boolean).all — Show inlay hints for all arguments.Variable type inlay hints show the types of variables that don't have explicit type annotations.
Setting: typescript.inlayHints.variableTypes.enabled
Property type inlay hints show the type of class properties that don't have an explicit type annotation.
Setting: typescript.inlayHints.propertyDeclarationTypes.enabled
Parameter type hints show the types of implicitly typed parameters.
Setting: typescript.inlayHints.parameterTypes.enabled
Return type inlay hints show the return types of functions that don't have an explicit type annotation.
Setting: typescript.inlayHints.functionLikeReturnTypes.enabled
The TypeScript references CodeLens displays an inline count of reference for classes, interfaces, methods, properties, and exported objects:
You can enable this by setting "typescript.referencesCodeLens.enabled": true in the User Settings file.
Click on the reference count to quickly browse a list of references:
Implementations CodeLensThe TypeScript implementations CodeLens displays the number of implementors of an interface:
You can enable this by setting "typescript.implementationsCodeLens.enabled": true.
As with the references CodeLens, you can click on the implementation count to quickly browse a list of all implementations.
Auto importsAutomatic imports speed up coding by helping you find available symbols and automatically adding imports for them.
Just start typing to see suggestions for all available TypeScript symbols in your current project.
If you choose one of the suggestions from another file or module, VS Code will automatically add an import for it. In this example, VS Code adds an import for Hercules to the top of the file:
You can disable auto imports by setting "typescript.suggest.autoImports": false.
When you copy and paste code between editors, VS Code can automatically add imports when the code is pasted. When you paste code that contains an undefined symbol, a paste control is shown that lets you choose between pasting as plain text or to add imports.
This feature is enabled by default, but you can disable it by toggling the typescript.updateImportsOnPaste.enabled setting.
You can make paste with imports the default behavior, without showing the paste control, by configuring the editor.pasteAs.preferences setting. Include text.updateImports.jsts or text.updateImports to always add imports when pasting.
VS Code's TypeScript features also work with JSX. To use JSX in your TypeScript, use the *.tsx file extension instead of the normal *.ts:
VS Code also includes JSX-specific features such as autoclosing of JSX tags in TypeScript:
Sorry, your browser doesn't support HTML 5 video.Set "typescript.autoClosingTags" to false to disable JSX tag closing.
VS Code's TypeScript IntelliSense understands many standard JSDoc annotations, and uses them to show typing information and documentation in suggestions, hover information, and signature help.
Keep in mind that when using JSDoc for TypeScript code, you should not include type annotations. The TypeScript compiler only uses TypeScript type annotations and ignores those from JSDoc.
Sorry, your browser doesn't support HTML 5 video.To disable JSDoc comment suggestions in TypeScript, set "typescript.suggest.completeJSDocs": false.
Code navigation lets you quickly navigate TypeScript projects.
You can navigate via symbol search using the Go to Symbol commands from the Command Palette (⇧⌘P (Windows, Linux Ctrl+Shift+P)).
VS Code includes a TypeScript formatter that provides basic code formatting with reasonable defaults.
Use the typescript.format.* settings to configure the built-in formatter, such as making braces appear on their own line. Or, if the built-in formatter is getting in the way, set "typescript.format.enable" to false to disable it.
For more specialized code formatting styles, try installing one of the formatting extensions from the VS Code marketplace.
Syntax highlighting and semantic highlightingIn addition to syntax highlighting, TypeScript and JavaScript also provide semantic highlighting.
Syntax highlighting colors the text based on lexical rules. Semantic highlighting enriches the syntax coloring based on resolved symbol information from the language service.
Whether semantic highlighting is visible depends on the current color theme. Each theme can configure whether to display semantic highlighting and how it styles the semantic tokens.
If semantic highlighting is enabled and the color theme has a corresponding styling rule defined, different colors and styles can be seen.
Semantic highlighting can change colors based on:
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