Typescript Intellisense and Auto Suggestion stuck at loading

[seyaobey-dev]

Type: Performance Issue

When I hover over a variable name or I press "ctrl + cmd" to see the suggestions, typescript displays a "loading" tooltip for several minutes before just failing to display suggestions. Sometimes also, on the bottom bar, the "loading IntelliSense status" message takes several minutes to complete. In the meaning time, any typescript related functionality is non working.

I would like to mention that this behaviour appears only in a nextjs 13 (app router) project which contains a huge .d.ts file (more than 30 000 lines). But I don't observer this behaviour in any other non nextjs project. (For example the same huge file works just fine in a react-native expo project).

I tried the Insiders build, tried to uninstall all extensions, tried to downgrade to several lower versions...

I may be able to share the repo if needed.

VS Code version: Code 1.78.2 (b3e4e68a0bc097f0ae7907b217c1119af9e03435, 2023-05-10T15:00:40.428Z)
OS version: Darwin arm64 21.6.0
Modes:
Sandboxed: No

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Load (avg)	3, 3, 2
Memory (System)	8.00GB (0.07GB free)
Process Argv	--crash-reporter-id 63ed6f6e-71ac-4a4d-ab65-103921cdbbe4
Screen Reader	yes
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[seyaobey-dev]

I'm observing that in order to get intellisense, auto-suggestion and even error reporting to "some what" work in a file, I must constantly restart the typescript server.

[RyanCavanaugh]

We'd need a concrete repro to be able to investigate further

[ustuncem]

This issue still persists.. I can share a private repo if you want. This only happens in a Next.js 13 project.

[JanSmrcka]

I am facing the same issue, I have one huge .d.ts file with around 12000 lines, without that file it works fine. When file was under 10000 it works relative ok, but now when open new file need to wait for minutes to intellisense, auto-suggestion and even error work. Project is also Next.js 13.

Version: 1.83.1 (Universal)
Commit: f1b07bd25dfad64b0167beb15359ae573aecd2cc
Date: 2023-10-10T23:46:55.789Z (6 days ago)
Electron: 25.8.4
ElectronBuildId: 24154031
Chromium: 114.0.5735.289
Node.js: 18.15.0
V8: 11.4.183.29-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 23.0.0

I also tryied different machine with fresh OS installation and VS Code - insiders without extensions, but issue persist.

Version: 1.84.0-insider
Commit: f1c3b1d
Date: 2023-10-17T05:45:00.205Z
Electron: 25.8.4
ElectronBuildId: 24154031
Chromium: 114.0.5735.289
Node.js: 18.15.0
V8: 11.4.183.29-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 22.6.0

[MiroslavPetrik]

Happens to me in next14 with a generated edgedb client which is a huge amount of TS code as well.
I've added the generated folder into exclude in my tsconfig, and now it runs.

Edit:
It appears the edgedb client is not the issue, as it got stuck again while its ignored.
My app is based on https://github.com/MiroslavPetrik/net3-starter
the common denominator appears to be the app directory of next.js. I'm on windows 11

[MiroslavPetrik]

I've enabled

  "typescript.tsserver.log": "verbose",

in my vscode settings and isolated the long-duration request:

Info 6535 [16:36:32.180] request:
    {
      "seq": 989,
      "type": "request",
      "command": "encodedSemanticClassifications-full",
      "arguments": {
        "file": "c:\\Users\\miros\\code\\hobik\\src\\app\\(user)\\settings\\addresses\\page.tsx",
        "start": 0,
        "length": 854,
        "format": "2020"
      }
    }
Perf 6536 [16:51:39.176] 989::encodedSemanticClassifications-full: elapsed time (in milliseconds) 906998.3197
Info 6537 [16:51:39.176] response:
    {"seq":0,"type":"response","command":"encodedSemanticClassifications-full","request_seq":989,"success":true,"body":{"spans":[298,11,2057,314,4,2561,334,6,2561,350,7,2561,403,9,2821,428,9,2089,448,3,2056,452,7,2560,460,12,2560,473,5,3072,794,9,2088,805,11,2056],"endOfLineState":0}}

no idea what it means but 15minutes is long response time

what I did on that page, is only to click on a react component in the JSX in order to go to its definition...
but it behaves the same for any type information, e.g. when hovering a type or attempt to go into library types etc

related issues
#49053
microsoft/vscode#181953

[MiroslavPetrik]

I've downgraded to ts v. 5.0.3 for now and it allows me to work again. Still the DX is not ideal, some types takes few seconds to resolve.
The project besides edgedb client has trpc + zod. All of this is loads of types. I'm experiencing also undeterminism as sometimes the trpc resolves to some err state and I must restar the TS server and all is fine again.

[roryscot]

I'm facing this issue currently in VSCode, on several MacBook Pros, both M2 and Intel:

2024-08-15 18:57:48.766 [trace] <semantic> Response received: encodedSemanticClassifications-full (210). Request took 155445 ms. Success: true { "spans": [ 467, 11, 2817, 493, 5, 2560, 500, 4, 2089, 509, 10, 2816, 520, 11, 2056, 543, 7, 2089, 552, 10, 2857, 566, 8, 2816, 575, 12, 1536, 600, 6, 2089, 609, 10, 2816, 620, 21, 2056, 686, 10, 2857, 699, 11, 2816, 737, 4, 2560, 743, 8, 2089, 762, 6, 2088, 769, 6, 2560, 776, 11, 2560, 788, 4, 3072, 801, 6, 2561, 819, 5, 2561, 838, 2, 2561, 842, 4, 2088, 848, 10, 2560, 899, 8, 2088, 908, 6, 2576, 918, 10, 2856, 929, 8, 2088, 949, 6, 2088, 956, 6, 2560, 963, 11, 2560, 976, 4, 2088, 987, 9, 2816, 1009, 10, 2856, 1029, 6, 2088, 1036, 6, 2560, 1043, 11, 2560, 1056, 4, 2088, 1124, 7, 2088, 1160, 4, 2561, 1178, 7, 2561, 1205, 8, 2561, 1240, 5, 2561, 1259, 7, 2561, 1286, 8, 2561, 1321, 12, 2561, 1347, 7, 2561, 1374, 8, 2561, 1409, 6, 2561, 1429, 7, 2561, 1456, 8, 2561 ], "endOfLineState": 0 }

encodedSemanticClassifications-full took almost a minute and an half. I'm not sure what the root cause is, but it seems to be related to a large type generated by @aws/amplify as a schema.

You can try reproducing by deleting a dependency and generating the help menu here https://github.com/humanifest/femmes-vitale/blob/a365931584094827318caa27684a273f691d0b2a/src/components/UserProfile/UserProfile.tsx#L28C40-L28C50

[RyanCavanaugh]

@roryscot please file a new issue with complete and minimal repro steps