Improving Code Assist with TypeScript

[paulvi]

Related to #7 .

JavaScript lacks type definition. This problem is address in Microsoft TypeScript language.
As I understand, they also provide files for common libraries with that information.
The idea is to get those files and check if we can get some useful result from them (in a quick way)

[paulvi]

A large collection of declaration files for popular JavaScript libraries
Example https://github.com/borisyankov/DefinitelyTyped/blob/master/node/node.d.ts

[paulvi]

All JavaScript engines for IDE spend a lot of efforts guessing type of JavaScript variable.

I believe with some Java parser for TypeScript and with over 100+ libraries descriptions
https://github.com/borisyankov/DefinitelyTyped
it would be possible to give quick implementation for simple completions for those libraries.

[paulvi]

ref ternjs/tern#317

What about if we just use TypeScript definition files to describe external libraries APIs? There are a lot of those on Definitely Typed.

[paulvi]

closing as really really old