Bug: Incorrect module resolution for "valid" ES2015 specifiers with hashes and/or search parameters

[SMotaal]

TypeScript Version: 2.8.0-dev.20180315

Search Terms: moduleResolution "module path" hash

Code

import { x as x1 } from './x.m.js';  // Typed correctly on hover
import { x as x2 } from './x.m.js#esm' // Typed as "import x…" on hover

Expected behavior:

Since module specifiers are now standardized, whereby if given an absolute specifier (or a relative specifier and the absolute referrer) should always result in a validly constructed new URL(specifier, referrer) it is expected that when a specifier includes suffix aspects like hash and search, that those aspects would be excluded from the pathname that is being resolved.

The implications of hash and search in runtime is beyond the scope of TypeScript and should remain so unless somehow the environment is customized to behave different (plugins maybe). However, if at all relevant, the specs have stated that at runtime each unique "resolved" URL (including hash and search) evaluates to a single unique instance of the respective module. It is not expected that TypeScript would need to determine if and when a module is a specific unique instance. It is however expected that when suffix aspects are included in the specifier that TypeScript would still resolve it's types identically as it does for the pathname sans hash and search.

Sorry for the long text!

Actual behavior:

TypeScript does not resolve pathnames with hash or search parameters.

[webappslove]

I don't understand how this issue is not a bug, as this issue brakes intellisense / go to definition! VS code isn't of much use without this feature :(

@mhegazy Shouldn't a valid practice (and with the goal of reducing dependencies on tools, e.g. manual cache busting), be supported, and shouldn't the lack of support be labeled as a bug!? Or do you think that everyone should just use tools until this "feature" (I would say correct behavior) is implemented?

Sorry if this is not very constructive, but the idea of switching IDE again just makes me cry...