Visual Studio 2017 Intellisense with Aurelia

Question

I have been trying desperately for a month to figure out a way to get JavaScript intellisense to work for Aurelia in Visual Studio 2017. I know there is no definitions in npm @types. I tried to copy over the index.d.ts file from the local node_modules folders to a folder in the Salsa Cache at c:\\Users\\User\\AppData\\Local\\Microsoft\\Typescript\\2.5\\@types that is named the same as the Aurelia module, along with the package.json. It didn't work. I tried adding a jsconfig.json. Also didn't work. Is there anyone with Aurelia intellisense working in VS 2017????????

Answer 1

I'm not sure if this is applicable to your installation, but there is a known issue ( https://github.com/jspm/jspm-cli/issues/1344 ) with type definitions when Aurelia is installed via jspm. The solution for now, unfortunately, is to also install Aurelia as a dev dependency via npm.

npm install --save-dev aurelia-framework aurelia-bootstrapper aurelia-pal-browser aurelia-polyfills

This takes up more space, but should resolve the issue until it's fixed properly.