How to get code assist for adaptors in VSC

If you're working from a github repo you won't get code-completion in VSC.

One day we'll create a VSC plugin to enable this seamlessly. But in the meantime, you can do it with this one weird trick:

• Install an adaptor globally
  • npm -g install @openfn/language-commcare
  • run this from your project folder to avoid asdf issues
• Get the path to the global installation
  • npm -g list
• Go to your project's github
• Create a jsconfig.json in root (you should probably gitignore it)
• Paste this into jsconfig.json:

{
  "compilerOptions": {
    "paths": {
      "@openfn/*": ["<your global root>/node_modules/@openfn/*"]
    }
  } 
}

• In your job code, explicitly import the adaptor functions you need (this is safe but redundant in lightning)

import { fetchReportData } from '@openfn/language-commcare'

• ta-da 🎉

You can do this with the monorepo too - but you'll need to individually map your packages (* won't work because the folder structure is different). Like this:

{
  "compilerOptions": {
    "paths": {
      "@openfn/language-commcare": ["~/repo/openfn/adaptors/packages/commcare"]
    }
  } 
}

The adaptor will need to be built, obviously.