intellisense/autocomplete no longer working with v9

[ghost]

Describe your environment

• Operating System: Windows 10
• Firebase SDK version: 9.1.3
• IDE: Webstorm and VSCode

Describe the problem

Not sure if this is entirely related to Firebase itself.

With v9, no intellisense is provided for the firebase module. If I write out the import paths manually it does work, but no suggestions are given when writing out function names.

I think it might be happening due to the firebase/* paths being re-exports of the @firebase/* paths making the IDE not index the modules correctly, however I haven't been able to find any workarounds for this yet.

Steps to reproduce:

• Create a new project with firebase.
• Start writing our initializeApp or some other exported function.
• Intellisense either comes up with nothing or suggests the equivalent function in the compat section.

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[Feiyang1]

I'm aware that Webstorm has some issues with auto-completion with v9, but I have not heard any issues from VSCode. Can you please clarify if it's only an issue with Webstorm?

[ghost]

In VSCode, the behaviour is inconsistent.

• For certain functions like initializeApp and getAuth autocomplete does not trigger.
• For getFirestore it does autocomplete but it uses the @firebase/firestore module rather than the firebase/firestore one.

[Feiyang1]

Can you please try 9.2.0 to see if the situation improved? We made a change in this release, which I hope to solve the issue.

[ghost]

Tried testing it with a fresh node_modules directory with ^9.2.0, and unfortunately the issue still persist in both IDEs. The weird anomaly with getFirestore mentioned in my last comment isn't there anymore.

[ghost]

Tried this again with 9.5.0 and it now seems to be working in both IDEs.

[ghost]

I tried this with both 9.5.0 and 9.6.1 and it seems to have randomly stopped working again.