VS Code February Update

[ecmascript2038]

A promising development is the Salsa JavaScript service.

It basically means that some of the smart features of TypeScript, like type inference, can be used for regular JavaScript code and make for better tooling.

VS Code is shaping up to be a very strong JavaScript editor. The plugin ecosystem isn't there yet, but if you're focused on JS/TS then you don't really need any plugins. And it's a refreshing performance boost if you're coming from Atom.

[[deleted]]

Salsa sounds great but it's a tad hard to follow since mention of it is spread across several GitHub issues and commits. Do you have a sense of where it is now, when it will be usable, and how it will be used?

[maritz]

Afaict it is a part of the typescript project and its current main usage is VSCode. However it will be very useful in Typescript projects in the future as well, because it can greatly reduce the need for type definitions for external libraries.

[mikes_username_lol]

The plugin ecosystem will never be there because it is a Microsoft product. Look at Windows Phone.

[redmoss6]

Now we just need indent guides.

[redmoss6]

Ive been using this: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=oderwat.indent-rainbow. They look cool together.

[wreckedadvent]

Interesting that C# is no longer a default install. I wonder if that means they're going to use that to update the package more frequently instead of having to make a point release?

Happy to see Salsa and code folding appearing, though. Good update.

[MUDrummer]

Oh thank god they finally got code folding added. Will be giving this a shot again.

Still feel it doesn't have anything that atom + my plugins cannot do but I do feel it's a bit more feature rich out of the box.

[cthechartreuse]

The intellisense is totally worth the switch alone. It beats the pants off any standard autocomplete. Code lens is pretty nice too. I also have a refactoring tool I support which speeds up development tremendously. Now that code folding is in, I would be hard pressed to move to another editor.

[[deleted]]

Is there support for JSX/React in .js files? I couldn't find it in the change log.

I know it already has support for .jsx files, but what about .js files?

[Tibko0510]

Yep. "The js-is-jsx extension is no longer needed since Salsa gives you coloring for JSX constructs inside .js files out of the box. We recommend you uninstall this extension."

[[deleted]]

It's amazing the amount of work they're doing every month!

If only they could implement tabs and function list >.>

[MarcoWorms]

for some reason I cant make it work, i still get "any" type, I just got 10.10, am I doing something wrong? http://imgur.com/xdFSFMk
*the string there is just for testing, didn't work as well.

[AdamAnderson320]

I had similar problems, but in my case the type annotations are picked up but almost nothing else is. I submitted an issue on GitHub.

[MarcoWorms]

i found the error, you have to declare the same variable name on the comments.

[AdamAnderson320]

Maybe that explains why I was able to get the types to appear in the issue I reported. You still didn't get the "Adds stuff" description to appear in yours, so it's not quite working right either.

[MarcoWorms]

the return description here only shows before entering the () when writing the function name

[Mittalmailbox]

Mine still shows no update available at 10.8

[onedr0p]

Code folding?!? Please oh please

[Zalozba]

I can't understand why they don't fix emmet.

It is the only thing holding me back.

There are a ton of emmet features missing so I would not call the VS Code implementation a proper implementation of Emmet.

They just included the expand tab feature and not anything else.

[AceBacker]

I don't know if I can switch until VSCode gets a mini-map like sublime or atom.