TS Switch

TS Switch is a small VS Code extension for recovering TypeScript language features from the status bar.

Use it when IntelliSense, type checking, imports, hover, or TS/JS navigation gets stuck and you would normally run TypeScript recovery commands from the command palette.

Features

• Restart the VS Code TypeScript server from the status bar
• Reload TypeScript project configurations as part of the restart flow
• Optional auto recovery for config changes, error spikes, and an unresponsive TS server
• Restart history, diagnostics, and context details in the TS Switch output channel
• Status bar tooltip with TS SDK, tsconfig, diagnostics, auto recovery, and last restart information

Usage

1. Open a TypeScript, TSX, JavaScript, or JSX workspace.
2. Click the TS Switch status bar item.
3. Choose Restart TS Server.

Restart TS Server runs both:

• typescript.restartTsServer
• typescript.reloadProjects

Quick Pick

• Restart TS Server: restart the TS server and reload project configurations
• Open Settings: open TS Switch settings
• Open Output: show restart history and diagnostics in the TS Switch output channel

Settings

• tsSwitch.autoRecovery: automatically run the integrated recovery flow after config changes, diagnostic error spikes, or an unresponsive TS server.
• tsSwitch.reloadWindowAfterRestart: also reload the VS Code window after the restart and project reload flow.

Command

• TS Switch: Restart TypeScript Server
• TS Switch: Show Menu

Status Bar

• TS Ready: ready
• TS Ready [Recovery]: auto recovery is enabled
• TS Restarting: manual restart is running
• TS Recovery: auto recovery is running
• TS Restarted: restart completed
• TS Error: restart failed

Notes

TS Switch does not run npm, pnpm, yarn, or development server scripts. It only uses VS Code's built-in TypeScript commands.