microsoft / microsoft/TypeScript

[tsserver] CompileOnSaveEmitFile should returns emited files (js, map, d.ts) path

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Description

I'm consumming "CompileOnSaveEmitFile " with tsserver inside Eclipse. It works great and improve a lot of performance (before I called tsc when for each save of file and performance was not very good).

In Eclipse, when a file is created outside Eclipse (like tsserver generates js, map files), the files doesn't appear in the Navigator files of the Eclipse. We must do a refresh at hand.

It should be very cool if CompileOnSaveEmitFile could returns the file path for each generated files. With this feature I could refresh those files inside Eclipse.

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Research direction

Start by tracing the tsserver CompileOnSaveEmitFile command and its response handling. Check how generated JavaScript, source map, and declaration outputs are currently represented. Done means the response exposes the paths of each emitted file so Eclipse can refresh them without a manual refresh.

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Assessment

Tech stack
typescript
Domain
tooling
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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