Request - Webpack IntelliSense

[waderyan]

Test tour for MERN starter kit #22277

• VSCode Version: Insiders
• OS Version: macOS

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Clone MERN starter kit
2. Open one of the webpack.*.js files.

I'm not sure how this could be done. A common pattern with webpack is to module.exports all the webpack configuration. If VS Code could give IntelliSense in that location (by maybe determining that its a webpack file) - that would be very neat.

[Spown]

this webpack module should supply a typings data, that if present, is interpreted by the TypeScript server and then used by Intellisense. If it doesn't provide typings or TypeScript is unable to produce a desirable data - then it won't happen. Its not VSCode's fault nor it's task to to magically produce it.

[mjbvz]

Closing in favor of the more generic #24657

As mentioned in that issue, one possible workaround is using jsdocs:

import { Configuration } from 'webpack'

/**
 * @type {Configuration}
 */
const config = {
    
};

module.exports = config

However this TypeScript bug prevents the typings from being very useful in this case