How can I enable a Node.js Intellisense in VS Code?

Question

For instance, I am aware of a constant in Node.js __dirname, but when I try to type __dir in VS Code I am not getting any suggestions, while I would expect to see the __dirname as a suggestion.

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What can I do about it? Maybe I should install a plugin?

Here is the version of VS Code I am using:

Version: 1.33.1 (user setup)
Commit: 51b0b28134d51361cf996d2f0a1c698247aeabd8
Date: 2019-04-11T08:27:14.102Z
Electron: 3.1.6
Chrome: 66.0.3359.181
Node.js: 10.2.0
V8: 6.6.346.32
OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.17763

Thank you.

I don't install any extensions, I am using version 1.33.1, On my side, working suggestion with `__dir`, what is your version? — Wang Liang, Apr 25 '19 at 20:00
Do you have Node installed locally? You should have Node installed locally so you can also have access to the run time debugger. — joshhemphill, Apr 25 '19 at 20:19

liaguridio · Accepted Answer · 2019-09-08T12:14:58.457

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There was some time while a back that :

npm install node;

in the project root folder was enough for vscode (at least for my case) to give me intellisense for node . Now I need to do also that :

npm install @types/node;

again in the project folder . Also the same solution seems to be suggested from vs code docs .

edited Sep 08 '19 at 12:14

answered Sep 07 '19 at 20:58

liaguridio

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Thanks! I was experiencing the same thing and finally found this perfect solution. – user1944491 Oct 06 '20 at 18:41
Here from 2022, thank you so much! This solution is still working :)! – fibershot. Sep 17 '22 at 00:00
Yay, here in 2023 and this seemed to work for me. – Dan Jul 25 '23 at 20:16
why do you need `npm install node`? – starball Aug 25 '23 at 07:14

How can I enable a Node.js Intellisense in VS Code?

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