Better hints for 'cannot find name' errors · Issue #25309 · microsoft/TypeScript (original) (raw)

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Description

Discussed at #25306

We found that for "Cannot find name" errors, certain identifiers were fairly frequent:

require, map, buffer, describe, $, asyncIterator, process, symbol, module, promise

We're thinking that we can elaborate beyond the usual error message.

• $ => Suggest jQuery
• describe => Did you mean to have types for mocha, jest, etc.?
• process, require, module => Suggest including Node types
• Symbol, Promise, Map, Set, WeakMap, WeakSet, Iterator, AsyncIterator => User needs to set a different lib or target.