VSCode does not provide suggestions/auto-complete for NPM package installed as a dependency of another

[paul-uz]

I have my own "SDK" package which has a dependency of a popular ORM package.

I can installed my SDK package in a project, and I can import the ORM package and use it, however, autocomplete, and suggestions when i write a method belonging to the ORM hasn't yet been imported, simply do not work, unless I add the ORM package explicitly to my projects package.json, which seems a bit redundant?

Is there anything I can add to my project package.json file to get it working?

[IllusionMH]

I think it's intended behavior - dependencies specify which packages are required by app/package, but their transitive dependencies are implementation detail and consumers should not rely on them, as they can be removed/updated to new major/replaced in any deoendency update.

In your case you should add it to package.json to make your intent explicit, re-export subset of ORM API from SDK to control what consumers should have access to, use it as peerDependencies in SDK if consumers are expected to use ORM anyway.

[andrewbranch]

Duplicate of #38768

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[mrleblanc101]

It would be nice ot have an option to not filter sub-dependencies