Idea: Migrate to TypeScript plugin about abracadabra

[zardoy]

Also I've seen you use TS typeChecker, why don't you use TS AST API then and prefer babel then? Sorry, I might be missing something

[nicoespeon]

That sounds like a good idea. I haven't spent much time and energy on Abracadabra recently, but I will give this more thought during the weekend and come back to you. Thanks for the detailed suggestion @zardoy 👍

[nicoespeon]

May be helpful: I just noticed that there is now an official way to retrieve the TS API used by VS Code (https://code.visualstudio.com/api/references/contribution-points#contributes.typescriptServerPlugins)

[nicoespeon]

Also useful, just realize you can send commands to the TS extension language of VS Code to do the changes, like @zardoy mentioned. Example: https://github.com/zardoy/typescript-vscode-plugins/blob/4afae28467c9a061ebb95ff4d12525adc7913018/src/sendCommand.ts#L41-L48

Resources:

• https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/blob/fc4f41d9fcc7d0c4d964718f2565e68813c92a03/extensions/typescript-language-features/src/commands/tsserverRequests.ts#L13
• https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/blob/fc4f41d9fcc7d0c4d964718f2565e68813c92a03/extensions/typescript-language-features/src/typescriptService.ts#L89