Declare method quick fix should ask for method visibility and return type

🔍 Search Terms

declare method quick fix snippet mode

✅ Viability Checklist

• This wouldn't be a breaking change in existing TypeScript/JavaScript code
• This wouldn't change the runtime behavior of existing JavaScript code
• This could be implemented without emitting different JS based on the types of the expressions
• This isn't a runtime feature (e.g. library functionality, non-ECMAScript syntax with JavaScript output, new syntax sugar for JS, etc.)
• This isn't a request to add a new utility type: https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/wiki/No-New-Utility-Types
• This feature would agree with the rest of our Design Goals: https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/wiki/TypeScript-Design-Goals

⭐ Suggestion

TS offers a quick fix to declare a method:

As you can see, its quite involved to fix method visibility and return type later.

It would be great if I would be put into snippet mode with tab stops at method visibility and return type to quickly add these.

An example for what snippet mode can do:

📃 Motivating Example

Powerful method declare quick fix support in snippet mode.

💻 Use Cases

1. What do you want to use this for?

Quick fix add missing methods easily.

2. What shortcomings exist with current approaches?

You have to manually edit the method visibility and return type.

3. What workarounds are you using in the meantime?

None.

Search the TypeScript codebase for the declare-method quick fix and its snippet-generation tests. Read how the quick fix currently creates the method and add snippet tab stops for method visibility and return type; done means the generated method enters snippet mode and supports quickly editing both.