Code completion: suggest tokens from "paths" in tsconfig.json

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Code completion; module

Suggestion

Use Cases

For those paths which contains no wildcard character, can we suggest tokens from module it points?

For example:

{
  "baseUrl": '.',
  "paths": {
    "my-base-module": [
        "../../dest/base"
    ],
}

in the example, we can say that bare module specifier "my-base-module" is mapped to path "../../dest/base", which is actually a .d.ts.

However, my IDE(Visual Studio Code) do not list available symbols in "my-base-module",
such as, When I type:

const v: Ve // I 'm going to type Vec3, which is defined in "../../dest/base".

I hopo IDE can suggest Vec3 and auto-complete the importing statement as:

import { Vec3 } from "my-base-module";

You may ask: Why don't you put "../../dest/base" in "types" option in tsconfig.json.

Well, the "../../dest/base" is just a library of me. It is indeed another Typescript project's output bundle file(bundling use rollup). It is bundled as a single module, which, in later, maybe registered as a SystemJS module with name "my-base-module" because I hope users of the library treat the library as a single JS module so they can write:

import /* xx */ from "my-base-module";

Examples

As stated above, I would upload my example if it's needed.

Checklist

My suggestion meets these guidelines:

• [-] This wouldn't be a breaking change in existing TypeScript/JavaScript code
• [-] This wouldn't change the runtime behavior of existing JavaScript code
• [-] This could be implemented without emitting different JS based on the types of the expressions
• [-] This isn't a runtime feature (e.g. library functionality, non-ECMAScript syntax with JavaScript output, etc.)
• [-] This feature would agree with the rest of TypeScript's Design Goals.

[klemenoslaj]

I have exactly the same situation as OP and it came to me as a surprise this is not working :)
Right now the only way around this is manual code review which is not ideal, obviously.