Set global declaration in vscode JavaScript

Question

I'm working on a JavaScript transpiler that apart from other things will also replace certain functions and variables upon build.

For example the following file (./src/my-module.js):

defineModule("MyModule", function(exports) {
  return exports;
});

Will be copied and converted to (./build/my-module.js):

(function(global, factory) {
  "use strict";
  if (typeof exports !== "undefined" && typeof module !== "undefined") module.exports.MyModule = factory(exports.MyModule || {});
  else factory(global.MyModule = {});
})(this, function(exports) {
  return exports;
});

Some of these functions could also return a result. In that case I would like to be able to declare the types of the parameters and the result of the function without using require. Is it possible to have a global .d.ts definition in VSCode?

So far, all I've done is add the functions to the global variable of eslint so as to not have errors.

Answer 1

You can specify your own TypeScript folder path in your settings.json where you can specify your own lib.*.d.ts files using the typescript.tsdk option.

{
  "typescript.tsdk": "node_modules/typescript/lib"
}