Code-completion issues in IntelliJ

[tmtron]

As described on Stackoverflow: Why does code-completion work on Stackblitz, but not in Intellij?, code completion does not work for mathJs in IntelliJ.

• I think the reason for this is, that you have an index.ts file and an index.d.ts file which are not related to each other, despite the same name.
  • So I think, you should rename the index.ts file to something else: maybe main.ts, etc.
    When I rename index.ts to main.ts in node_modules/types/ then code-completion in IntelliJ works
• I wonder why the index.ts is even included in the npm bundle. What is it needed for? It seems include only some code, that is meant for the developers of the library, but not for the users of the lib.
  • If my assumption is correct, then the index.ts file should not be included in the npm bundle at all
    When I delete the index.ts file, then code completion in IntelliJ works.

What do you think?

[gwhitney]

Thanks for fielding the stack exchange question, tmtron.

I agree that the current index.ts has no value for someone who is simply a client of the library. So, not bundling index.ts sounds fine to me. But I am not really familiar with the bundler or how to leave the index.ts out; maybe this is something someone else involved with the project (possibly @josdejong if he is not too swamped) can do easily?

[josdejong]

Thanks for bringing this up, good point. The index.ts file is only used as a unit test to verify that all type definitions work. It should indeed not be a part of the npm library. I think we the most neat solution is to move index.ts into the folder with unit tests. Alternatively, we could simply ignore the file in the npm package.

[josdejong]

I've created a PR fixing this in #2812. Unless there is feedback I'll merge it in a few days.

[josdejong]

I've published a fix now in v11.3.1

[tmtron]

I've published a fix now in v11.3.1

Thanks, I can verify that code-completion works now.