microsoft / microsoft/TypeScript

Please provide better feedback for issue 20357

Open
#35,496 0 comments 0 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub

Nobody has claimed this yet.

Experience Enhancement Suggestion
Dominant language
Go
Stars
111k
Forks
14.3k
Avg merge
2d 4h
Merged PRs (30d)
132

Description

Search Terms

disableSizeLimit, "Find All References"

Suggestion

Issue #20357 is closed. That's great, what's not great is the poor error message feedback that the TS server provides. There is a project so telling the user there isn't one is confusing. The fix is not obvious and neither is the issue. Any chance of an improvement in the error text?

Use Cases

Examples

Checklist

My suggestion meets these guidelines:

  • [ x] This wouldn't be a breaking change in existing TypeScript/JavaScript code
  • [ x] This wouldn't change the runtime behavior of existing JavaScript code
  • [ x] This could be implemented without emitting different JS based on the types of the expressions
  • [ x] This isn't a runtime feature (e.g. library functionality, non-ECMAScript syntax with JavaScript output, etc.)
  • [ x] This feature would agree with the rest of TypeScript's Design Goals.

Contributor guide

Open the contributing guide

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Start by reading the TypeScript server handling for the disableSizeLimit and "Find All References" search terms, then review issue #20357 for the related behavior. The work is complete when the server's feedback distinguishes the existing project situation clearly instead of reporting that no project exists.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
typescript
Domain
developer-experience
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

Get new issues in your inbox

A short digest of beginner-friendly GitHub issues.