VSCode always shows type definition and not the actually implementation

Question

do any of you face this problem , where vscode always take you to the type definition of a function and not the implementation.

For example, I right click on the react setState function as below,

And VS code shows me the typescript file.

If its problem a, how do i fix it. If not then how do I look at the implementation and not the type definition of a function.

Answer 1

This is a limitation of VS Code's intellisense. We don't attempt to parse js from inside node_modules for IntelliSense, so we have no way of mapping back to the original source code. Instead we rely on *.d.ts to provide definitions.

These two issues are tracking possible improvements to this:

• https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/issues/6209
• https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/issues/16792