can't navigate javascript with manual namespaces

[jrieken]

From @chadbr on March 22, 2016 0:18

I have large legacy codebase with "manual" style namespacing like this:

//namespaces
var my = my || {};
my.app = my.app || {};

and "classes" declared like this:

my.app.Application` = (function () {
var Application = function () {
...
};
return Application;
})();

I've tried several combinations of jsconfig.json parameters and none allow me to navigate this style of code. Should this work?

• VSCode Version: 0.10.11, 0.10.12-insider
• OS Version: OSX 10.11.3

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Open attached project or github repo https://github.com/chadbr/vscodeTestJS

vscodeTestJS.zip

1. Open folder in vscode
2. open src/app/application.js
3. try to go to declaration of my.app.SomeView() -- nothing happens.

Copied from original issue: microsoft/vscode#4533

[jrieken]

From @chadbr on March 22, 2016 0:21

oh - and FWIW, WebStorm allows me to navigate these files...

[unional]

This is a major road block for our team to adapt VSCode and TypeScript because our main product is still using global namespace (due to ExtJS).

[chadbr]

I'm assuming this won't be supported any time soon (if ever...)

[aluanhaddad]

This seems easily as reasonable as tracking prototype assignments.

[Cristy94]

Any news? It's very annoying that by simply namespacing objects you no longer get IntelliSense.

[mhegazy]

@sandersn this should be addressed with your fix for #16489 with a small modification to recognize the pattern var x = x || {}.

[mhegazy]

Another pattern referenced in microsoft/vscode#27246 is var x = window.x || {}

[ghost]

If https://github.com/tc39/proposal-nullish-coalescing advances, you may want to revisit this issue.