Vscode-ng-language-service: Support for VS 2017?

[StevenRasmussen]

Is there any chance that VS2017 will become a supported IDE?

[meriturva]

same request here! just to know if we could still on our IDE or move to vscode. Thanks!

[kukjevov]

i think if you set up typescript plugin to @angular/language-services it will work also in Visual Studio 2017, but not in standalone html, for that we will probably need plugin, but I am not completely sure, because @chuckjaz was doing also some changes in typescript to locate external html files for typescript.

[chuckjaz]

There are no plans for this extension to support VS2017.

However, from what I understand, there are changes coming to VS that would allow the language service to work as a plugin to TypeScript.

[stewieoO]

@chuckjaz
Do you have any reference for that information?

[stewieoO]

@kukjevov

i think if you set up typescript plugin to @angular/language-services

What do you mean by that? Can you add plugins to the normal typescript plugin in vs2017?

[josephliccini]

It seems to be working if one includes it in plugins in the tsconfig.json in VS2017 15.4.

I don't see the language service working properly in our Angular HTML Templates though.

Here's the issue I filed: https://github.com/angular/angular/issues/19629

[StevenRasmussen]

Looks like Visual Studio is going to support the Angular language service natively. See the following announcement regarding VS 2017 15.5. Here's a link to the GitHub sample project

[Narvalex]

Please do not forsake full Visual Studio... I do not like VS Code because it can not simply support properly multi-monitor setup

[manoharreddyporeddy]

Few things I found:

1
angular website proposes to upgrade within an year.

Now that we have angular6 ready & 7 coming in a month

that makes this link (https://github.com/Microsoft/angular2-in-visual-studio) which is for angular 2, out of date.

2
There is an article for VS 2015 on angular website here:
https://angular.io/guide/visual-studio-2015

Similar procedure for VS 2015 may work for VS 2017 with some changes

3
Angular service (code completion and for debugging) is only available
for Visual Studio Code and WebStorm only
https://angular.io/guide/language-service#angular-language-service-in-your-editor

In other words, VS Code is not good for non-JS related works (like C++17) but it is good for JS & related works

After much thought & struggle, I learnt shortcuts of VS Code (https://code.visualstudio.com/assets/docs/getstarted/tips-and-tricks/KeyboardReferenceSheet.png), and started using it for Angular for now.

[Narvalex]

Visual studio code is not good for 3 or 2 monitors set up. Multi windows is not possible yet AFAIK

[manoharreddyporeddy]

True.

I switched to React.js for UI.

Angular2/4/5/6 is too difficult to get immediately started for my team.

Same is asserted here:
https://stackshare.io/react
https://stackshare.io/angular-2

In the above, React looks better, except for the votes.

In Angular, it took 3 hours to write a button & call an API,
and still has a lot of errors in Browser console.

While in React.js, our basic app is ready in just 1 day.

[duki994]

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/visualstudio/extensibility/adding-an-lsp-extension?view=vs-2017#getting-started

This is promising. Newest VS2017 15.8+ versions include native support for Language Server Protocol

[RyoukoKonpaku]

Tried it using VS Preview 15.9 and it works, inline templates have intellisense and gives errors as expected on how VS Code does it (no syntax highlighting though, probably need a grammar for that). Html templates have no intellisense which I think would need an extension similar to VS Code, but overall promising.

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