Need Install Instructions for Visual Studio Code (VSC)

[jxa-userland]

Need Install Instructions for Visual Studio Code (VSC)

[azu]

Thanks for feedback.

@jxa/global-type's approach is same with Cypress that is a E2E framework.

• Intelligent Code Completion | Cypress Documentation
• JXA/packages/@jxa/global-type at master · JXA-userland/JXA

There are serveral pattern of usage.

TypeScript user

If you write JXA script as TypeScript project, you just import @jxa/global-type

file.ts:

import("@jxa/global-type");

JavaScript user

If you write JXA as JavaScript, you should do following steps:

1. Create package.json

• $ npm init --yes

2. Install @jxa/global-type

• $ npm install -D @jxa/global-type

3. Adding tsconfig.json file with the following configuration should get intelligent code completion working.

tsconfig.json:

{
  "compilerOptions": {
    "allowJs": true,
    "types": [
      "@jxa/global-type"
    ]
  },
  "include": [
    "**/*.js" // <= this scope is integrated with @jxa/global-type
  ]
}

4. Write JXA code as JavaScript like file.js

Also, I've created starter repository for JavaScript user.

• https://github.com/JXA-userland/editor-integrate-example

git clone https://github.com/JXA-userland/editor-integrate-example
cd editor-integrate-example
vscode .

[JMichaelTX]

Thanks again for all the information you have provided.
I've tried many things but still can not get autocomplete of my JXA code to work.
Would it be possible to do a screen share some time, where you could walk me through this process?
If you would do that, then I would be happy to create a YouTube video showing users like me how to get this done.