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Visual Studio for Mac provides support for JavaScript and TypeScript through syntax highlighting, code formatting, and IntelliSense.

For more information on writing JavaScript, see to the Writing JavaScript Code guides.

Adding a JavaScript file

JavaScript files are most often added to ASP.NET Core projects through the New File dialog. To add a javascript file, right-click on your project and go to Add > New File:

NET as well as Visual Studio exists on both Windows, Linux, and Mac. The above means we are adding the package Newtonsoft.Json to the project.

From the New File dialog, select Web > Empty JS file or Web > TypeScript file. Give it a name and then choose New:

IntelliSense

Visual Studio for Mac uses the JavaScript Language Service to provide IntelliSense, allowing you to have intelligent code completion, parameter info, and member lists when writing code.

JavaScript IntelliSense in Visual Studio for Mac can be based on type inference, JSDoc, or TypeScript declarations.

• Type inference – The type of an object is figured out by the surrounding code context. For more information, see Visual Studio's section on IntelliSense based on type inference.

• Akai synthstation 25 driver for mac. JSDoc – There are times when type inference doesn't provide the correct type information. In these cases, the type information can be provided explicitly by JSDoc annotations. For more information, see Visual Studio's section on IntelliSense based on JSDoc

• TypeScript declaration files – .d.ts files are used to provide values for JavaScript IntelliSense. Types declared in that file can be used as types on JSDoc comments. For more information, see Visual Studio's section on IntelliSense based on TypeScript declaration files

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