Visual Studio Code Automatic Imports

I'm in the process of making the move from Webstorm to Visual Studio Code. The Performance in Webstorm is abysmal.

Visual studio code isn't being very helpful about finding the dependencies I need and importing them. I've been doing it manually so far, but to be honest I'd rather wait 15 seconds for webstorm to find and add my import that have to dig around manually for it.

I'm using the angular2 seed from @minko-gechev https://github.com/mgechev/angular2-seed

I have a tsconfig.json in my baseDir that looks like this:

    {
  "compilerOptions": {
    "target": "es5",
    "module": "commonjs",
    "declaration": false,
    "removeComments": true,
    "noLib": false,
    "emitDecoratorMetadata": true,
    "experimentalDecorators": true,
    "sourceMap": true,
    "pretty": true,
    "allowUnreachableCode": false,
    "allowUnusedLabels": false,
    "noImplicitAny": true,
    "noImplicitReturns": true,
    "noImplicitUseStrict": false,
    "noFallthroughCasesInSwitch": true
  },
  "exclude": [
    "node_modules",
    "dist",
    "typings/index.d.ts",
    "typings/modules",
    "src"
  ],
  "compileOnSave": false
}

and I have another one in my src/client dir that looks like this:

{
  "compilerOptions": {
    "target": "es5",
    "module": "commonjs",
    "moduleResolution": "node",
    "sourceMap": true,
    "emitDecoratorMetadata": true,
    "experimentalDecorators": true,
    "removeComments": false,
    "noImplicitAny": false,
    "allowSyntheticDefaultImports": true
  }
}

I don't know why there are two. The angualr seed project uses typescript gulp build tasks so I guess the compilation is different.

What can I do get vscode to be more helpful??

Solution

I got this working by installing the various plugins below.

Most of the time things just import by themselves as soon as I type the class name. Alternatively, a lightbulb appears that you can click on. Or you can push F1, and type "import..." and there are various options there too. I kinda use all of them. Also F1 Implement for implementing an interface is helpful, but doesn't always work.

List of Plugins

Screenshot of Extensions

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