New and Noteworthy 1.3.0

New and Noteworthy 1.3.0

Here's a list of the most noteworthy things in the typescript.java 1.3.0 release which is available for download since ?. You can see issues for 1.3.0

CodeLens

CodeLens can be available to see references an dimplementation inside the TypeScript editor:

See here for more informations.

Pay attention, it's not perfect, there are some limitations:

• lens doesn't work for the first line of the editor
• if tsserver is not available after 5 seconds, CodeLens will not work. Please update the text editor to refresh teh compute of the CodeLens.

Refactoring

Rename

You can rename TypeScript symbol:

Refactoring Support

Since TypeScript 2.4.1, tsserver provides a refactoring support which will be improved in each TypeScript version. TypeScript 2.4.1 provides one Refactoring support available only for JavaScript file:

This refactoring support is available with Menu / Refactoring. In the future we will have more support.

Severity

Since tslint 5.0.0, severity can be customized per rule. Severities are now supported inside the TypeScript Editor by using the tslint-language-service.

Here a demo with tslint and severities:

Here a tslint.json example which configure "quotemark" rule with "warning" severity:

{
	"rules": {
		"quotemark": {
			"severity": "warning",
			"options": [
				"single"
			]
		}
	}
}

Markdown comments support & TextMate

Completion context info and Hover parses comments with MarkDown parser and uses TextMate support to colorize code.

Hover

Here a sample with hover of comments which contains ts code:

Completion context info

The TypeScript completion context info which displays details of completion, now uses TextMate to colorize the detail:

Multi Hyperlink

You can see list of hyperlink (file name and line number) when there are several definitions:

Compare

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Wizard

The New TypeScript ptoject wizard gives the capability to create quickly a TypeScript project with tslint: