After a while since I had installed VS Code, I started to work on a nodejs project. As I started development, I started to realise that the intellisense of VS Code was just not up to the high standards that I had expected. Infact, it was just plain poor. There was no option even to rename an element, no ‘lightbulb’, no options when right-clicking an element:
I knew that some setting was not configured properly. So after digging up the Visual Studio Code website for javascript configuration, I came up with what was wrong.
There is a built-in extension called TypeScript and JavaScript Language Features (vscode.typescript-language-features) that is disabled.
To enable it, go Extensions.
Click the dotted button in the Extensions panel:
And click Show Built-in Extensions from the dropdown box.
In the search box, type @builtin TypeScript and JavaScript Language Features
When the extension appears, Enable it.
Now you should be able to see the list of options for making your coding life easier:
You saved me!!! Been searching this for a while and couldn’t find any solution, thanks a lot!
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The same problem was. Tnx! Even install webstorm 🙂 but it is not an option for me
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That was what I been trying to figure out all day. Thanks 👍
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Very helpful. Went through a lot of post in stack overflow and the github repo of vscode, none of them asked you to check this simple thing before doing much more complicated things. Thanks!
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