microsoft / microsoft/TypeScript

better ux and ui design for debug

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Description

🔍 Search Terms
  • format ts syntax, ux , ui
✅ Viability Checklist
⭐ Suggestion

Do you think you can do something (modernize) the way TS tokenizes and formats the output for better formatting and syntax readability in vscode?
I'm still surprised that the language provides a mediocre appearance with very poorly formatted like JSON from the 80s!
Thank you

📃 Motivating Example

actual behavior :
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expected behiavior:
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💻 Use Cases
  1. What do you want to use this for?
    debugging
  2. What shortcomings exist with current approaches?
    none
  3. What workarounds are you using in the meantime?
    none

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Research direction

Start by comparing the attached actual and expected formatting examples and determining whether the requested change belongs to TypeScript tokenization and formatting or VS Code's debug display. No files, tests, or concrete entry point are named. Done would require an agreed formatting design and validation for the improved debugging output.

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Assessment

Tech stack
typescript, vscode
Domain
developer-experience, tooling
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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