atom-typescript installed but no autocomplete, no format code, only get the typescript status bar

I installed atom-typescript and when I open a TS file I do get the TypeScript status bar on the bottom that says “Error In Open Files” and “Last Build Output” and such.

I don’t get any autocomplete though. Nothing pops up at all as I type. Nothing pops up when I hover over variables, go to declaration doesn’t work, pretty much nothing works except for the status bar.

The status bar does update as I type (mostly just “Js emit is outdated” and “Js emit is up to date”).

Initially I did not have any tsconfig.json file. I added one to the root with mostly default options and an exclude for node modules. I still had the problem so I replaced the tsconfig.json with empty options, {}. Still same issue.

What can I look into to resolve what’s going on? Seems like it must be something wrong with my setup (I just installed Atom today, was using WebStorm previously).

Thanks,

Sam

atom-typescript\package.json snippet (too long to post full file)

{
  "name": "atom-typescript",
  "version": "6.0.0",
  "main": "./dist/main/atomts",
  "bin": {
    "atbuild": "./dist/main/bin/atbuild"
  },
  "preferGlobal": "true",
  "description": "The only TypeScript plugin you will ever need.",
  "engines": {
    "atom": ">=0.199.0 <2.0.0",
    "node": "*"
  },
  "providedServices": {
    "autocomplete.provider": {
      "versions": {
        "2.0.0": "provide"
      }
    },
    "linter": {
      "versions": {
        "1.0.0": "provideLinter"
      }
    }
  },
  "consumedServices": {
    "snippets": {
      "versions": {
        "0.1.0": "consumeSnippets"
      }
    }
  },
  ...
  "dependencies": {
    "atom-package-dependencies": "https://github.com/basarat/atom-package-dependencies/archive/cb2.tar.gz",
    "atom-space-pen-views": "^2.0.4",
    "babel": "^5.6.23",
    "basarat-text-buffer": "6.0.0",
    "d3": "^3.5.5",
    "emissary": "^1.3.3",
    "escape-html": "^1.0.1",
    "fuzzaldrin": "^2.1.0",
    "glob-expand": "0.0.2",
    "htmltojsx": "0.2.4",
    "immutable": "^3.7.3",
    "json2dts": "0.0.1",
    "mkdirp": "^0.5.0",
    "ntypescript": "1.201508230720.1",
    "react": "^0.13.3",
    "season": "^5.1.4",
    "strip-bom": "^2.0.0"
  },
  ...
}

[eliorcohen]

I had the same issue. it’s seems to be related to permissions. the only way i get it to work successfully was to start the atom from the project folder with “sudo” command.

sudo atom ./

and the autocomplete started to work as expected. using the open project from the menu seems to cause some problems.

[gurumohanreddy]

For atom-typescript and any new typescript project in general, for things like autocomplete to work correctly, you must have a tsconfig.json file. atom-typescript has a command to generate you a file, when you’re editing a .ts file.

Press Ctrl+Shift+P and type create file and click on the first result from typescript