How to get auto complete suggestions on IDE while developing chrome extension using chrome api?

Question

recently i am developing chrome extension. using js,html,css however for every action i am searching google for chrome.* api reference. is there any way to add extension for auto complete of chrome.* api methods in vscode?

Answer 1

If you use Vscode, just create or update jsconfig.json at the root of project :

{"typeAcquisition": {"include": ["chrome"]}}

Answer 2

Reference (User: ewwink): https://www.reddit.com/r/vscode/comments/93c2ez/chrome_extension_autocomplete/

Steps:

1. Visual Studio Code
2. File => Preferences => Settings
3. User
4. Extensions
5. Under Activation on Language => click on settings. JSON
6. Add the following inside the JSON

{"typeAcquisition": {"include": ["chrome"]}}

7. Voila you're ready !