I am defining four global variables from a forEach loop using a line similar to this:
global[name] = buffer
with buffer being the type from node.js
and currently have the very ugly way to get my intellisense for it by having this after the loop:
// next line only so intellisense works, ALWAYS comment out before running
const btMapProvinces = Buffer.alloc(1), btMapTerrain = Buffer.alloc(1), btMapRivers = Buffer.alloc(1), btMapHeightmap = Buffer.alloc(1);
Now as i learned about how to use JSDoc to get Intellisense for arguments in modules i was sure i could use that to get Intellisense for my variables instead, but after reading through the whole documentation i can't seem to get it working.
My current attempt looks like this:
/**
* @var {Buffer} btMapProvinces
* @var {Buffer} btMapTerrain
* @var {Buffer} btMapRivers
* @var {Buffer} btMapHeightmap
*/
but it just doesn't work at all, no matter if it is right before the global[name] = buffer line, at the beginning of the script, or after the forEach...
I previously also tried using @name like this:
/**
* @name btMapProvinces
* @type {Buffer}
* @name btMapTerrain
* @type {Buffer}
* @name btMapRivers
* @type {Buffer}
* @name btMapHeightmap
* @type {Buffer}
*/
though this did not work aswell
The last two hours i spent looking through other asks, of which these are the ones i found the most interesting:
- It's a pretty similar situation to this i think, except that i'm not using Typescript: JSDoc: How to specify the type of an implicit global variable for a JS code snippet?
- This is why i tried
@var: Specify type of globals declared in another file - I feel like this could potentially answer my question, but i don't understand the answer: How to document the type of a global variable with JSDOC
