decorators in object literals not working

From @pascalopitz on November 19, 2015 11:43

I am getting a parsing error for decorators on object literal properties. My jsconfig.json looks like this:

{
    "compilerOptions": {
        "target": "ES6",
        "module": "commonjs",
        "experimentalDecorators": true
    }
}

This code compiles okay in babel 5.8.12 using the “es7.decorators” extension. Can I somehow make this work?

Copied from original issue: Microsoft/vscode#201

[hb20007]

This issue still exists. Even when this setting is on in my IDE (VS Code):

I get the following errors:

[evisong]

Hi, team, we’ve been heavily used ES decorators, especially decorators for object literals in our products, currently any code after blocks decorated by such decorators, could not be parsed correctly by VSCode; it keeps prompting [js] ';' expected. or [js] Declaration or statement expected., which seem annoying.

With some search, we found this issue, however a year has passed since last update of the issue. ES standards are evolving slower than we expected but babel-plugin-transform-decorators-legacy is still popular. Seems a lot of JS open source libs depend on this legacy decorators for object literals.

Is it possible for TS or VSCode to add a special setting to allow the decorators for object literals in JS code (e.g. experimentalDecoratorsForObjectLiterals), regardless the ES standard? It’s ok to keep the legacy/non-standard warnings, but for minimal the code after the decorated blocks should be parsed correctly.

Thanks.