microsoft / microsoft/TypeScript

Exclude specific exported identifiers from auto import suggestions

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Description

### 🔍 Search Terms

Exclude named imports

### ✅ Viability Checklist

- [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, new syntax sugar for JS, etc.)
- [x] This isn't a request to add a new utility type: https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/wiki/No-New-Utility-Types
- [x] This feature would agree with the rest of our Design Goals: https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/wiki/TypeScript-Design-Goals

### ⭐ Suggestion

There are libraries like `@mui/material` that have a number of named imports such, e.g. `createTheme`, `useTheme`, `debounce`, `darken` that can pollute intellisense.

While I don't want to exclude the entire `@mui/material` module, it would be great if I were able to exclude specific named imports so they do not show in the intellisense.

### 📃 Motivating Example

I have my own methods for `useTheme` and `darken` and wish to show my own methods in the intellisense and exclude those from `@mui/material`.

### 💻 Use Cases

1. What do you want to use this for?
I want to be able to exclude specific named imports from modules

2. What shortcomings exist with current approaches?
It requires updates when modules change their named imports

3. What workarounds are you using in the meantime?
None

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Research direction

The issue names no source file, test, or entry point. Start by locating TypeScript's auto-import and IntelliSense suggestion implementation, then determine how module-level exclusions are configured and tested. Done means users can exclude selected named imports from a module without excluding the entire module.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
javascript, typescript
Domain
developer-experience, tooling
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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