Run ts server using ubuntu bash (WSL)

[wclr]

It would be nice if ts server in VSCode could run using Ubuntu Bash (Windows Subsystem for Linux). It is needed if in general dev workflow assumes working with bash shell and WSL file system. For example, WSL symlinks are not compatible with windows NTFS symlinks - this makes running VSCode (tsserver) and other node_modules related operations in bash shell incompatible when linked modules are involved.

This issue is one of the cases of #10129

[Tyriar]

@mjbvz might know more about what tsserver is.

[mjbvz]

It is unclear to me what the issue with TSServer is here or how it relates to the command line. Can you please explain your usecase and the problems you are seeing in more detail. If TSSerever is not handling some file paths / symlinks properly, please open an issue against TypeScript

[wclr]

Correct me if I'm wrong: in VSCode Typescript Server (tsserver) is running as background process, and it gets requests and sends responses (typescript output in the console shows this) - that is how TS autocompletion, error reporting etc works.

But this background process is run natively in windows shell (uses nodejs that is installed in windows) and using windows file system. And I say that there is a need that this background process would be run as WSL process using nodejs that installed in linux and using its file system.

(The same case for running GIT, either windows version is used or linux installed)

[mjbvz]

@whitecolor Thanks for the additional detail. Yes, we just fork the current node process to spawn the tsserver. The request here would be to allow using a different instance of node than the one running vscode, probably by passing a execPath argument to fork

[wclr]

I think yes, but this should probably work, but need to check how it will run with WSL bash.

[wclr]

But the problem here is that tsc compiler watch mode seem to not support WSL microsoft/TypeScript#15328

[entrptaher]

Got same issue on ubuntu :(

[rfgamaral]

Also having the same issue...

I'm trying to move completely to WSL but this doesn't allow me to specify a different TypeScript tsserver - installed on WSL - to be used by Code. I'm forced to have Node.js/NPM installed on Windows and use that to install TypeScript globally and only then I can set that version in Code's typescript.tsdk setting.

@Tyriar @mjbvz Is this planned to be looked at?

[RMacfarlane]

We just announced remote development with VS Code, check out the blog post for details https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2019/05/02/remote-development