Automatic type acqusition for javascript projects not working anymore

[twilson90]

Does this issue occur when all extensions are disabled?: Yes

Version: 1.94.0 (user setup)
Commit: d78a74b
Date: 2024-10-02T13:08:12.626Z
Electron: 30.5.1
ElectronBuildId: 10262041
Chromium: 124.0.6367.243
Node.js: 20.16.0
V8: 12.4.254.20-electron.0
OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.22631

Steps to Reproduce:

For the last week or so VSCode has stopped automatic type acqusition for javascript projects.

I have a folder %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\TypeScript\5.5\node_modules, whenever I installed a package from npm in any project, vscode would automatically get the type definitions from the @types npm repo and store them here.

For the last week or so, there's a new directory in the TypeScript folder, 5.6.
This folder is empty except for a bare package.json.
Since the creation of that folder, and presumably a TypeScript version update, automatic type acquisition has stopped working entirely.
I've tried reinstalling vscode, uninstalling all addons, erasing all settings and deleting %Appdata%/Roaming/Code
Nothing works.
Really frustrating.
Please help!

TypeScript.zip

[twilson90]

Just rolled back to August 2024 (version 1.93) and the problem is not present.

[IllusionMH]

May be related to microsoft/TypeScript#60156
You can try to install TS 5.5 somewhere locally and point VS Code there. Should fix problem while fix is not released.

[kkocdko]

also hit this bug in my machine

thanks for the fix in upsteam

for a temp workaround, try:

cd ~/.cache/typescript/5.6
npm i -D @types/node
# and more you need

[kkocdko]

this is fixed in 1.94.2 , consider close this issue?