I have an open source project called react-querybuilder that is maintained as a monorepo. Most of the TypeScript type definitions live in the ts package.

When I have a file open in VS Code for one of the other packages that imports a type from @react-querybuilder/ts, the types seemed to be cached based on the packages/ts/dist folder at the time VS Code launches.

When I make an update to a type in the ts folder and rebuild the @react-querybuilder/ts package, the change is not automatically applied to the other projects, even if I close and reopen all the files.

The only way I have found to update the types cache is to reload the VS Code window. Unfortunately my work computer is old and not built as a great developer machine, so this can take some time. Is there a way to refresh the types without completely reloading the window?

CodePudding user response：

There might be some optimization to your codebase that prevents this problem from occurring, but in the mean time, there's a "TypeScript: Restart TS Server" command that refreshes the types and is a bit faster than reloading the entire window. You can also use it to update the types after installing new npm packages.

I personally find these two keyboard shortcuts useful: alt r restarts TypeScript, whereas alt command r reloads the window.

  {
    "key": "alt r",
    "command": "typescript.restartTsServer"
  },
  {
    "key": "alt cmd r",
    "command": "workbench.action.reloadWindow"
  },