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Automatic completion, renaming, go to define based on decorator parameters

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Description

### 🔍 Search Terms

language server, decorator, auto completions

### ✅ 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

In the following example, when no function return type is specified, the decorator parameter type should be automatically completed, renamed, and go to define.

![Image](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/4a382666-3854-4f3f-ac6a-6d9494223f1b)

### 📃 Motivating Example

This makes it easier to write when applying decorator

### 💻 Use Cases

[playground](https://www.typescriptlang.org/play/?#code/GYVwdgxgLglg9mABAEwKYTgJwIZS4gCgDcAuRbMATwBpFoAPMgYQBtsBndgWVSgAs4yACLosuLEwRRU9KAB4KNQgEpEAXgB8iAN6JgMVC2Rl2UTDDABzRAF8Nq7QFgAUC5suXoSLAQpROPEwARkJScipaBmY2TgAxAyMRDACJKRl5RVoCVU0dPQTjRFNzK1t7HQ9nd1dnCBj2RABBCudERAABNGTxTBc26VNslra2zF4QTCRdfUNCgHI52z6lmrbO-x6g5YGoELUVdS0nVpGxqAmp-NmyBZW26psgA)

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Research direction

Start with the linked TypeScript Playground example and reproduce the decorator-parameter scenario there. Trace how the language service currently handles completion, rename, and go-to-definition when the function return type is omitted; done means all three operations work for the decorator parameter without changing emitted JavaScript.

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Assessment

Tech stack
javascript, typescript
Domain
developer-experience
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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