require.main.require imports do not work

TypeScript Version: 2.6.0-dev.201xxxxx

From: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/35489#issuecomment-335689358

Code

const myModule = require.main.require('./file.js')

Run go to definition on myModule

Expected behavior: Goes to defintion of myModule

Actual behavior: Nothing happens. Looks like we don’t understand require.main.require style imports

[grokky1]

I realise this may be a big feature for you, but consider that it is a widely-used alternative to requiring crazy paths like ../../../../../../foo/bar/baz.js. So many people are using this approach now.

I hope you can find a way to get this to work.

[rafaelmaeuer]

I am looking forward to this feature too. Intellisense is not able to understand require.main.require as alias for require. But this method helps a lot for readability of code when you have files in deeper folder structures.