VSCode IntelliSense doesn't suggest Angular modules until imported manually in the project

Question

First you have to understand that I\'m switching from IntelliJ to VSCode (Maybe I was too comfortable the way IntelliJ was looking for modules).

I\'ll mostly use VSCode

Answer 1

I reproduced, understood and solved this problem and actually to have the httpClient stuff in the hints, you've to add also the node_modules/@angular/common/http. This has to do with the way they export the type definitions, you can find my issue that you can upvote with further information on why it happens exactly and shortly a PR to solve this here https://github.com/angular/angular/issues/35237

Anyway, to reproduce this you can also just head over to stackblitz and try to input "httpc" and you'll see no suggestion.