/// <reference types= "cypress" /> not enabling intellisense in VS code

Question

I'm having a problem trying to get code completion for Cypress while I'm using JS. I've tried following every bit of documentation I could found, but I don't find these comprehensive enough.

Answer 1

None of these worked for me, what finally gave me Intellisense was adding a tsconfig.json file to the Cypress folder, as per the Cypress docs:

{
  "compilerOptions": {
    "allowJs": true,
    "baseUrl": "../node_modules",
    "types": ["cypress"]
  },
  "include": ["**/*.*"]
}

Answer 2

I just added

  "compilerOptions": {
    "types": ["cypress"]
  }

to the object in the tsconfig.json file that was in the root cypress directory. I then chose "Restart TS Server" from the Command Palette and that sorted things out for me.